Spectral tetris fusion frame constructions (Q692616)

This paper addresses the question of how to efficiently construct fusion frames with prescribed dimensions of the subspaces and prescribed eigenvalues of the fusion frame operator. The main tool is the spectral tetris construction for unit norm frames. The authors first extend this construction to unit norm tight frames of redundancy less than two, but since the spectral tetris construction is limited to the case of frames having a frame operator with spectrum in \([2, \infty)\), they extend spectral tetris to the most general case possible in terms of the prescribed spectrum of the frame operator of the unit norm frame, by giving a version of spectral tetris capable of constructing an \(M\)--element unit norm frame in \(C^N\) with prescribed eigenvalues \((\lambda_n)_1^N \subseteq (0, \infty)\) satisfying only the necessary trace condition \(\sum_{n=1}^N \lambda_n = M\). The authors give a necessary condition on a prescribed sequence of eigenvalues and dimensions, under which the generalized tetris method can be used to construct a fusion frame having those eigenvalues for its fusion frame operator and having those dimensions for its subspaces. They further show that this condition is necessary in the case of unit norm tight frames of redundancy of at least two.