Physical wavelets and their sources: real physics in complex spacetime

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/30/201MaRDI QIDQ4451128zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gerald Kaiser

Publication date 23 February 2004

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0303027

zbMATH Keywords

Maxwell equationsscalingLorentz transformationsacoustic and electromagnetic waveletsextended delta functionsrelativistic coherent states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nontrigonometric harmonic analysis involving wavelets and other special systems (42C40) Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Coherent states (81R30)

Abstract: For the first time, complete source distributions for the emission and absorption of acoustic and electromagnetic wavelets are defined and computed, both in spacetime and Fourier space. The biggest surprise is the great simplicity of the Fourier sources as compared to the rather convoluted spacetime expressions obtained from the original wavelets. This suggests that the associated pulsed-beam propagators may play a fundamental role in emission and absorption processes including focus or "directivity." It also opens the way to constructing FFT-based algorithms for pulsed-beam analyses of acoustic and electromagnetic waves.

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