Optimal decompositions of translations of L^2-functions

DOI10.1007/S11785-007-0043-9MaRDI QIDQ841663zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Myung-Sin Song, Palle Jorgensen

Publication date 18 September 2009

Published in Complex Analysis and Operator Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4876

zbMATH Keywords

Bessel estimateframeHilbert spaceisometryParseval framespectral functionspectrumunitary operatorwavelet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Frames, locales (06D22) Nontrigonometric harmonic analysis involving wavelets and other special systems (42C40) Riesz operators; eigenvalue distributions; approximation numbers, (s)-numbers, Kolmogorov numbers, entropy numbers, etc. of operators (47B06) Spectral operators, decomposable operators, well-bounded operators, etc. (47B40) Inference from stochastic processes and spectral analysis (62M15) Inference from stochastic processes and prediction (62M20)

Abstract: In this paper we offer a computational approach to the spectral function for a finite family of commuting operators, and give applications. Motivated by questions in wavelets and in signal processing, we study a problem about spectral concentration of integral translations of functions in the Hilbert space $L^2(mathbb{R}^n)$. Our approach applies more generally to families of $n$ arbitrary commuting unitary operators in a complex Hilbert space $mathcalH$, or equivalent the spectral theory of a unitary representation $U$ of the rank-$n$ lattice $mathbb{Z}^n$ in $mathbb{R}^n$. Starting with a non-zero vector $psiinmathcalH$, we look for relations among the vectors in the cyclic subspace in $mathcalH$ generated by $psi$. Since these vectors $U(k)psi|kinmathbb{Z}^n$ involve infinite ``linear combinations," the problem arises of giving geometric characterizations of these non-trivial linear relations. A special case of the problem arose initially in work of Kolmogorov under the name $L^2$-independence. This refers to extit{infinite} linear combinations of integral translates of a fixed function with $l^2$-coefficients. While we were motivated by the study of translation operators arising in wavelet and frame theory, we stress that our present results are general; our theorems are about spectral densities for general unitary operators, and for stochastic integrals.

Review text

In this paper, the authors offer a computational approach to the spectral function for a finite family of commuting operators and give some applications. Motivated by questions about wavelets and from signal processing, the authors study a problem about the spectral concentration of integral translations of functions in the Hilbert space \(L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)\). The approach presented in this paper applies more generally to families of \(n\) arbitrary commuting unitary operators in a complex Hilbert space \(\mathcal {H}\), or equivalently, the spectral theory of a unitary representation \(U\) of the rank-\(n\) lattice \(\mathbb{Z}^n\) in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Starting with a nonzero vector \(\psi\in\mathcal {H}\), the authors look for relations among the vectors in the cyclic subspace in \(\mathcal {H}\) generated by \(\psi\), where, for a family \(\{T_1,\dots,T_n\}\) of commuting unitary operators in \(\mathcal{H}\), the cyclic subspace generated by \(\psi\) is defined to be the closed subspace in \(\mathcal {H}\) generated by the vectors \(\{\psi_k:k\in\mathbb{Z}^n\}\) with \(\psi_k\equiv T^k\psi\) and \(T^k\equiv T_{1}^{k_1}T_{2}^{k_2}\dots T_{n}^{k_n}\) for \(k=(k_1,\dots,k_n)\in\mathbb{Z}^n\). Since these vectors \(\{U(k)\psi:k\in\mathbb{Z}^n\}\) involve infinite ``linear combinations, the problem arises of giving geometric characterizations of these nontrivial linear relations. A special case of the problem arose initially in work of Kolmogorov under the name \(L^2\)-independence. This refers to infinite linear combinations of integral translates of a fixed function with \(l^2\)-coefficients. While the authors were motivated by the study of translation operators arising in wavelet and frame theory and the results in this paper are general, the theorems of this paper are about spectral densities for general unitary operators and for stochastic integrals.

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