Reproducing subgroups of \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,\mathbb R)\). II: Admissible vectors (Q2447915)

In Part I of this paper [\textit{G. S. Alberti} et al., J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 19, No. 4, 651--682 (2013; Zbl 1311.22008)], motivated by a unified approach to continuous \(2D\) signal analyses, the authors classified all Lie subgroups of the symplectic group \(\mathrm{Sp}(2, {\mathbb R})\) of the form \(\Sigma\rtimes H\), where the normal factor \(\Sigma\) is a vector space of \(\text{Sym}(2,{\mathbb R})\) and \(H\) is a subgroup of \(\mathrm{GL}(2,{\mathbb R})\). In the paper under review, Alberti, De Mari, De Vito and Mantovani prove which of \(G=\Sigma\rtimes H\) is a reproducing group for the metaplectic representation \((\pi, L^2({\mathbb R}^2))\) of \(\mathrm{Sp}(2, {\mathbb R})\), that is, there exists the so-called admissible vector \(\eta\in L^2({\mathbb R}^2)\) for which \[ \|f\|^2=\int_G|\langle f, \pi(g)\eta\rangle|^2dg \] holds for all \(f\in L^2({\mathbb R}^2)\). They also describe all the admissible vectors. The corresponding wavelets include products of \(1D\)-wavelets, directional wavelets and shearlets. The ones that arise from four non-conjugate classes of two-dimensional groups \(G\) are not equivalent to the standard wavelet representation and are new examples, because the restriction of \(\pi\) to \(G\) is highly reducible.