Weyl-Heisenberg frames, translation invariant systems and the Walnut representation (Q5929868)

The authors present a comprehensive analysis of the convergence properties of the frame operators of Weyl-Heisenberg systems and shift-invariant systems, and relate these to the convergence of the Walnut representation. They perform a deep analysis of necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for convergence of the frame operator. They show that symmetric, norm and unconditional convergence of the Walnut series are all different, but that weak and norm convergence are the same, while there are WH-systems for which the Walnut representation has none of these convergence properties. They make a detailed study of the CC-condition (a sufficient condition for WH-systems to have finite upper frame bounds) and show that (for \(ab\) rational) a uniform version of this passes to the Wexler-Raz dual. They also show that a condition of Tolimieri and Orr implies the uniform CC-condition. They obtain stronger results in the case when \((g,a, b)\) is a WH-system and \(ab\) is rational. For example, if \(ab\) is rational, then the CC-condition becomes equivalent to the unconditional convergence of the Walnut representation -- even in a more general setting. Many of the results are generalized to shift-invariant systems. The authors give classifications for numerous important classes of WH-systems including: (1) The WH-systems for which the frame operator extends to a bounded operator on \(L^p(R)\), for all \(1 \leq p \leq \infty\); (2) The WH-systems for which the frame operator extends to a bounded operator on the Wiener amalgam space; (3) The families of frames which have the same frame operator.