Shearlet coorbit spaces and associated Banach frames (Q837543)

The authors introduce the shearlet group and establish the square-integrability of its representation in \(L_2({\mathbb R}^2)\) from a group-theoretical point of view. The concept of the coorbit space theory, developed by Feichtinger and Gröchenig, is recalled as needed. The relationships of the shearlet transform with the coorbit spase theory is studied. It is shown that all the conditions to construct the coorbit spaces can be satisfied, thus establishing the new family of shearlet coorbit spaces. To derive the associated Banach frames for these spaces, suitable discrete subsets, called \textit{U-dense sets}, had to be constructed and an additional integrability condition had to be satisfied. It is proved that the Schwartz space is contained in the shearlet coorbit spaces. The power of best \(n\)-term approximation schemes based on the shearlet frames is shown to depend on the smoothness of the signal as measured in a second shearlet coorbit space. The performance of the new frame algorithms is investigated by applying them to some test images.