Shearlet Smoothness Spaces

The shearlet representation has gained increasingly more prominence in recent years as a flexible and efficient mathematical framework for the analysis of anisotropic phenomena. This is achieved by combining traditional multiscale analysis with a superior ability to handle directional information. In this paper, we introduce a class of shearlet smoothness spaces which is derived from the theory of decomposition spaces recently developed by L. Borup and M. Nielsen. The introduction of these spaces is motivated by recent results in image processing showing the advantage of using smoothness spaces associated with directional multiscale representations for the design and performance analysis of improved image restoration algorithms. In particular, we examine the relationship of the shearlet smoothness spaces with respect to Besov spaces, curvelet-type decomposition spaces and shearlet coorbit spaces. With respect to the theory of shearlet coorbit space, the construction of shearlet smoothness spaces presented in this paper does not require the use of a group structure.     

Generalized coorbit space theory and inhomogeneous function spaces of Besov-Lizorkin-Triebel type

Coorbit space theory is an abstract approach to function spaces and their atomic decompositions. The original theory developed by Feichtinger and Gröchenig in the late 1980ies heavily uses integrable representations of locally compact groups. Their theory covers, in particular, homogeneous Besov-Lizorkin-Triebel spaces, modulation spaces, Bergman spaces and the recent shearlet spaces. However, inhomogeneous Besov-Lizorkin-Triebel spaces cannot be covered by their group theoretical approach. Later it was recognized by Fornasier and Rauhut (2005) [24] that one may replace coherent states related to the group representation by more general abstract continuous frames. In the first part of the present paper we significantly extend this abstract generalized coorbit space theory to treat a wider variety of coorbit spaces. A unified approach towards atomic decompositions and Banach frames with new results for general coorbit spaces is presented. In the second part we apply the abstract setting to a specific framework and study coorbits of what we call Peetre spaces. They allow to recover inhomogeneous Besov-Lizorkin-Triebel spaces of various types of interest as coorbits. We obtain several old and new wavelet characterizations based on explicit smoothness, decay, and vanishing moment assumptions of the respective wavelet. As main examples we obtain results for weighted spaces (Muckenhoupt, doubling), general 2-microlocal spaces, Besov-Lizorkin-Triebel-Morrey spaces, spaces of dominating mixed smoothness and even mixtures of the mentioned ones. Due to the generality of our approach, there are many more examples of interest where the abstract coorbit space theory is applicable.     

Shearlet coorbit spaces: traces and embeddings in higher dimensions

This papers examines structural properties of the recently developed shearlet coorbit spaces in higher dimensions. We prove embedding theorems for subspaces of shearlet coorbit spaces resembling shearlets on the cone in three dimensions into Besov spaces. The results are based on general atomic decompositions of Besov spaces. Furthermore, we establish trace results for these subspaces with respect to the coordinate planes. It turns out that in many cases these traces are contained in lower dimensional shearlet coorbit spaces.     

Different Faces of the Shearlet Group

Recently, shearlet groups have received much attention in connection with shearlet transforms applied for orientation sensitive image analysis and restoration. The square integrable representations of the shearlet groups provide not only the basis for the shearlet transforms but also for a very natural definition of scales of smoothness spaces, called shearlet coorbit spaces. The aim of this paper is twofold: first we discover isomorphisms between shearlet groups and other well-known groups, namely extended Heisenberg groups and subgroups of the symplectic group. Interestingly, the connected shearlet group with positive dilations has an isomorphic copy in the symplectic group, while this is not true for the full shearlet group with all nonzero dilations. Indeed we prove the general result that there exist, up to adjoint action of the symplectic group, only one embedding of the extended Heisenberg algebra into the Lie algebra of the symplectic group. Having understood the various group isomorphisms it is natural to ask for the relations between coorbit spaces of isomorphic groups with equivalent representations. These connections are examined in the second part of the paper. We describe how isomorphic groups with equivalent representations lead to isomorphic coorbit spaces. In particular we apply this result to square integrable representations of the connected shearlet groups and metaplectic representations of subgroups of the symplectic group. This implies the definition of metaplectic coorbit spaces. Besides the usual full and connected shearlet groups we also deal with Toeplitz shearlet groups.     

Shearlet Coorbit Spaces: Compactly Supported Analyzing Shearlets, Traces and Embeddings

We show that compactly supported functions with sufficient smoothness and enough vanishing moments can serve as analyzing vectors for shearlet coorbit spaces. We use this approach to prove embedding theorems for subspaces of shearlet coorbit spaces resembling shearlets on the cone into Besov spaces. Furthermore, we show embedding relations of traces of these subspaces with respect to the real axes.     

The Continuous Shearlet Transform in Arbitrary Space Dimensions

This paper is concerned with the generalization of the continuous shearlet transform to higher dimensions. Similar to the two-dimensional case, our approach is based on translations, anisotropic dilations and specific shear matrices. We show that the associated integral transform again originates from a square-integrable representation of a specific group, the full n-variate shearlet group. Moreover, we verify that by applying the coorbit theory, canonical scales of smoothness spaces and associated Banach frames can be derived. We also indicate how our transform can be used to characterize singularities in signals.     

Frames and Coorbit Theory on Homogeneous Spaces with a Special Guidance on the Sphere

The topic of this article is a generalization of the theory of coorbit spaces and related frame constructions to Banach spaces of functions or distributions over domains and manifolds. As a special case one obtains modulation spaces and Gabor frames on spheres. Group theoretical considerations allow first to introduce generalized wavelet transforms. These are then used to define coorbit spaces on homogeneous spaces, which consist of functions having their generalized wavelet transform in some weighted L_p space. We also describe natural ways of discretizing those wavelet transforms, or equivalently to obtain atomic decompositions and Banach frames for the corresponding coorbit spaces. Based on these facts we treat aspects of nonlinear approximation and show how the new theory can be applied to the Gabor transform on spheres. For the S¹ we exhibit concrete examples of admissible Gabor atoms which are very closely related to uncertainty minimizing states.     

Vanishing moment conditions for wavelet atoms in higher dimensions

We provide explicit criteria for wavelets to give rise to frames and atomic decompositions in L²(?^d), but also in more general Banach function spaces. We consider wavelet systems that arise by translating and dilating the mother wavelet, with the dilations taken from a suitable subgroup of GL(?^d), the so-called dilation group.The paper provides a unified approach that is applicable to a wide range of dilation groups, thus giving rise to new atomic decompositions for homogeneous Besov spaces in arbitrary dimensions, but also for other function spaces such as shearlet coorbit spaces. The atomic decomposition results are obtained by applying the coorbit theory developed by Feichtinger and Gröchenig, and they can be informally described as follows: Given a function ψ ∈ L²(?^d) satisfying fairly mild decay, smoothness and vanishing moment conditions, any sufficiently fine sampling of the translations and dilations will give rise to a wavelet frame. Furthermore, the containment of the analyzed signal in certain smoothness spaces (generalizing the homogeneous Besov spaces) can be decided by looking at the frame coefficients, and convergence of the frame expansion holds in the norms of these spaces. We motivate these results by discussing nonlinear approximation.     

Banach spaces related to integrable group representations and their atomic decompositions. Part II

We continue the investigation of coorbit spaces which can be attached to every integrable, irreducible, unitary representation of a locally compact groupG and every reasonable function space onG. Whereas Part I was devoted to atomic decompositions of such spaces, Part II deals with general properties of these spaces as Banach spaces. Among other things we show that inclusions, the quality of embeddings, reflexivity and minimality and maximality of coorbit spaces can be completely characterized by the same properties of the corresponding sequence spaces. In concrete examples (cf. Part III) one recovers several and often difficult theorems with ease. Acknowledgement. The second author gratefully acknowledges the substantial support by the Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft (project nr. 09/0010). Major parts of the paper where prepared while the second author held a position at McMaster University (Hamilton/Canada).     

Examples of Coorbit Spaces for Dual Pairs

In this paper we summarize and give examples of a generalization of the coorbit space theory initiated in the 1980’s by H.G. Feichtinger and K.H. Gröchenig. Coorbit theory has been a powerful tool in characterizing Banach spaces of distributions with the use of integrable representations of locally compact groups. Examples are a wavelet characterization of the Besov spaces and a characterization of some Bergman spaces by the discrete series representation of SL₂(?). We present examples of Banach spaces which could not be covered by the previous theory, and we also provide atomic decompositions for an example related to a non-integrable representation.     

Coorbit Spaces and Banach Frames on Homogeneous Spaces with Applications to the Sphere

This paper is concerned with the construction of generalized Banach frames on homogeneous spaces. The major tool is a unitary group representation which is square integrable modulo a certain subgroup. By means of this representation, generalized coorbit spaces can be defined. Moreover, we can construct a specific reproducing kernel which, after a judicious discretization, gives rise to atomic decompositions for these coorbit spaces. Furthermore, we show that under certain additional conditions our discretization method generates Banach frames. We also discuss nonlinear approximation schemes based on the atomic decomposition. As a classical example, we apply our construction to the problem of analyzing and approximating functions on the spheres.     

连续切波变换反演公式的级数表示

我们主要研究连续切波变换反演公式的级数表示.首先引入两类由切波变换反演公式定义的无穷级数和有限级数,并研究了由Kittipoom等人介绍的切波生成空间,得到这个切波生成空间的一些重要性质.其次利用这些结果显示:对于这个切波生成空间,当采样密度趋于无穷时由我们定义的无穷级数按L~2-范数收敛于重构函数;对于可允许函数空间,当采样密度趋于无穷时由我们定义的有限级数按L~2-范数收敛于重构函数.     

Continuous Frames, Function Spaces, and the Discretization Problem

A continuous frame is a family of vectors in a Hilbert space which allows reproductions of arbitrary elements by continuous superpositions. Associated to a given continuous frame we construct certain Banach spaces. Many classical function spaces can be identified as such spaces. We provide a general method to derive Banach frames and atomic decompositions for these Banach spaces by sampling the continuous frame. This is done by generalizing the coorbit space theory developed by Feichtinger and Gröchenig. As an important tool the concept of localization of frames is extended to continuous frames. As a byproduct we give a partial answer to the question raised by Ali, Antoine, and Gazeau whether any continuous frame admits a corresponding discrete realization generated by sampling.     

Generalized coorbit theory, Banach frames, and the relation to {alpha}-modulation spaces

This paper is concerned with generalizations and specific applicationsof the coorbit space theory based on group representations moduloquotients, which has been developed quite recently. We showthat the general theory applied to the affine Weyl–Heisenberggroup gives rise to families of smoothness spaces that can beidentified with -modulation spaces.     

Banach Gabor frames with Hermite functions: polyanalytic spaces from the Heisenberg group

Gabor frames with Hermite functions are equivalent to sampling sequences in true Fock spaces of polyanalytic functions. In the L ²-case, such an equivalence follows from the unitarity of the polyanalytic Bargmann transform. We will introduce Banach spaces of polyanalytic functions and investigate the mapping properties of the polyanalytic Bargmann transform on modulation spaces. By applying the theory of coorbit spaces and localized frames to the Fock representation of the Heisenberg group, we derive explicit polyanalytic sampling theorems which can be seen as a polyanalytic version of the lattice sampling theorem discussed by J.M. Whittaker in Chapter 5 of his book Interpolatory Function Theory.     

General Coorbit Space Theory for Quasi-Banach Spaces and Inhomogeneous Function Spaces with Variable Smoothness and Integrability

In this paper we propose a general coorbit space theory suitable to define coorbits of quasi-Banach spaces using an abstract continuous frame, indexed by a locally compact Hausdorff space, and an associated generalized voice transform. The proposed theory realizes a further step in the development of a universal abstract theory towards various function spaces and their atomic decompositions which has been initiated by Feichtinger and Gröchenig in the late 1980s. We combine the recent approaches in Rauhut and Ullrich (J Funct Anal 260(11):3299–3362, 2011) and Rauhut (Stud Math 180(3):237–253, 2007) to identify, in particular, various inhomogeneous (quasi-Banach) spaces of Besov–Lizorkin–Triebel type. To prove the potential of our new theory we apply it to spaces with variable smoothness and integrability which have attracted significant interest in the last 10 years. From the abstract discretization machinery we obtain atomic decompositions as well as wavelet frame isomorphisms for these spaces.     

Coorbit Spaces with Voice in a Fréchet Space

We set up a new general coorbit space theory for reproducing representations of a locally compact second countable group G that are not necessarily irreducible nor integrable. Our basic assumption is that the kernel associated with the voice transform belongs to a Fréchet space \(\mathcal T\) of functions on G, which generalizes the classical choice \(\mathcal T=L_w^1(G)\). Our basic example is \( \mathcal T=\bigcap _{p\in (1,+\infty )} L^p(G)\), or a weighted versions of it. By means of this choice it is possible to treat, for instance, Paley-Wiener spaces and coorbit spaces related to Shannon wavelets and Schrödingerlets.     

Inversion Formula for Shearlet Transform in Arbitrary Space Dimensions

In this article, we study the convergence of the inverse shearlet transform in arbitrary space dimensions. For every pair of admissible shearlets, we show that although the integral involved in the inversion formula from the continuous shearlet transform is convergent in the L² sense, it is not true in general whenever pointwise convergence is considered. We give some su?cient conditions for the pointwise convergence to hold. Moreover, for any pair of admissible shearlets we show that the Riemannian sums defined by the inverse shearlet transform are convergent to the original function as the sampling density tends to infinity.     

Generalized sampling reconstruction from Fourier measurements using compactly supported shearlets

In this paper we study the general reconstruction of a compactly supported function from its Fourier coefficients using compactly supported shearlet systems. We assume that only finitely many Fourier samples of the function are accessible and based on this finite collection of measurements an approximation is sought in a finite dimensional shearlet reconstruction space. We analyze this sampling and reconstruction process by a recently introduced method called generalized sampling. In particular by studying the stable sampling rate of generalized sampling we then show stable recovery of the signal is possible using an almost linear rate. Furthermore, we compare the result to the previously obtained rates for wavelets.