Irregular Gabor frames (Q2846887)

The authors investigate irregular Gabor frames. Their main result is the following:NEWLINENEWLINE{ Theorem}. Let \(\{{\mathcal O}_j, j \in N\}\) be a disjoint cover of \(R^2\) of simply connected measurable sets \({\mathcal O}_j\) with non-empty interior \({\mathcal O}_j^{o}\) and \(\mathrm{diam}({\mathcal O}_j) \leq \lambda\) for some \(\lambda >0\). Further, let \(\Gamma_{\lambda}=\{y_j\}_{j \in N}\) for some \(y_j \in {\mathcal O}_j^{o}\) and let \(\mu\) be a weight function on \(\Gamma_{\lambda}\) given by \(\mu_j=\mu(y_j)=|{\mathcal O}_j|\). If the window function \(\psi\) is in the Schwartz class, then there exists a number \(\lambda_0\) such that if \(\lambda < \lambda_0\), the family \(\{\psi_{\omega t}: (\omega, t) \in \Gamma_{\lambda}\}\) is a frame with weight \(\mu\) for \(L^2(R)\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe proof uses classical analysis tools only, and is based on the localization of the kernel of the Gabor transform. A necessary density may be found explicitly; however the result is far from being optimal, as may be seen from the presented numerical example.