Truncation of wavelet matrices: Edge effects and the reduction of topological control (Q1908185)

The authors study edge effects and Gibbs phenomena in signal processing. They show how this problem can arise from a mismatch between the ``topology'' of the data \(D\) (e.g., an interval in the case of a time series or a rectangle in the case of a photographic image) and the topology \(X\) (often a circle or torus) natural to the construction of the transformation \(O\). They introduce the notion of a manifold control space \(X\) for an orthogonal transformation \(O\). They prove that no matter how complicated \(X\) is, the transformation \(O\) may be ``truncated'' to an \(O'\) with control space \(D\), homeomorphic to an interval or a product of intervals, and they give the complete details for applying this approach to the discrete Daubechies transform of functions on the unit interval.