Distributional Point Values and Convergence of Fourier Series and Integrals

In this article we show that the distributional point values of a tempered distribution are characterized by their Fourier transforms in the following way: If and , and is locally integrable, then distributionally if and only if there exists k such that , for each a > 0, and similarly in the case when is a general distribution. Here means in the Cesaro sense. This result generalizes the characterization of Fourier series of distributions with a distributional point value given in [5] by . We also show that under some extra conditions, as if the sequence belongs to the space for some and the tails satisfy the estimate ,\ as , the asymmetric partial sums\ converge to . We give convergence results in other cases and we also consider the convergence of the asymmetric partial integrals. We apply these results to lacunary Fourier series of distributions.     

Fourier Inequalities and Moment Subspaces in Weighted Lebesgue Spaces

For define where Pointwise estimates and weighted inequalities describing the local Lipschitz continuity of are established. Sufficient conditions are found for the boundedness of from into and a spherical restriction property is proved. A study of the moment subspaces of is next developed in the one-variable case, for locally integrable, a.e. It includes a decomposition theorem and a complete classification of all possible sequences of moment subspaces in Characterizations are also given for each class. Applications related to the approximation and decomposition of are discussed.     

The Uniqueness of Shift-Generated Duals for Frames in Shift-Invariant Subspaces

Given an invertible matrix B and a finite or countable subset of , we consider the collection generating the closed subspace of . If that collection forms a frame for , one can introduce two different types of shift-generated (SG) dual frames for X, called type I and type II SG-duals, respectively. The main distinction between them is that a SG-dual of type I is required to be contained in the space generated by the original frame while, for a type II SG-dual, one imposes that the range of the frame transform associated with the dual be contained in the range of the frame transform associated with the original frame. We characterize the uniqueness of both types of duals using the Gramian and dual Gramian operators which were introduced in an article by Ron and Shen and are known to play an important role in the theory of shift-invariant spaces.     

Numerical Integration over Spheres of Arbitrary Dimension

In this paper we study the worst-case error (of numerical integration) on the unit sphere for all functions in the unit ball of the Sobolev space where More precisely, we consider infinite sequences of m(n)-point numerical integration rules where: (i) is exact for all spherical polynomials of degree and (ii) has positive weights or, alternatively to (ii), the sequence satisfies a certain local regularity property. Then we show that the worst-case error (of numerical integration) in has the upper bound where the constant c depends on s and d (and possibly the sequence This extends the recent results for the sphere by K. Hesse and I.H. Sloan to spheres of arbitrary dimension by using an alternative representation of the worst-case error. If the sequence of numerical integration rules satisfies an order-optimal rate of convergence is achieved.     

Approximation and Spanning in the Hardy Space,by Affine Systems

We show that every function in the Hardy space can be approximated by linear combinations of translates and dilates of a synthesizer , provided only that and satisfies a mild regularity condition. Explicitly, we prove scale averaged approximation for each ,

Interassociates of the Free Commutative Semigroup on n Generators

The interassociates of the free commutative semigroup on n generators, for n > 1, are identified. For fixed n, let (S, ·) denote this semigroup. We show that every interassociate can be written in the form , depending only on a n-tuple . Next, if and are isomorphic interassociates of (S, ·) such that , for x_ii and x_j in the generating set of S, then . Moreover, if and only if is a permutation of .     

Hardy Spaces on the Plane and Double Fourier Transforms

We provide a direct computational proof of the known inclusion where is the product Hardy space defined for example by R. Fefferman and is the classical Hardy space used, for example, by E.M. Stein. We introduce a third space of Hardy type and analyze the interrelations among these spaces. We give simple sufficient conditions for a given function of two variables to be the double Fourier transform of a function in and respectively. In particular, we obtain a broad class of multipliers on and respectively. We also present analogous sufficient conditions in the case of double trigonometric series and, as a by-product, obtain new multipliers on and respectively.     

Nonlinear Approximation by Trigonometric Sums

We investigate the -error of approximation to a function by a linear combination of exponentials on where the frequencies are allowed to depend on We bound this error in terms of the smoothness and other properties of and show that our bounds are best possible in the sense of approximation of certain classes of functions.     

Duality and Biorthogonality for Weyl-Heisenberg Frames

Let and let In this paper we investigate the relation between the frame operator and the matrix whose entries are given by for Here , for any We show that is bounded as a mapping of into if and only if is bounded as a mapping of into Also we show that if and only if where denotes the identity operator of and respectively, and Next, when generates a frame, we have that has an upper frame bound, and the minimal dual function can be computed as The results of this paper extend, generalize, and rigourize results of Wexler and Raz and of Qian, D. Chen, K. Chen, and Li on the computation of dual functions for finite, discrete-time Gabor expansions to the infinite, continuous-time case. Furthermore, we present a framework in which one can show that certain smoothness and decay properties of a generating a frame are inherited by In particular, we show that when generates a frame Schwartz space). The proofs of the main results of this paper rely heavily on a technique introduced by Tolimieri and Orr for relating frame bound questions on complementary lattices by means of the Poisson summation formula.     

Direct Sum Decomposition of L2(Rn 1) into Subspaces Invariant under Fourier Transformation

Denote by the real-linear span of , where Under the concept of left-monogeneity defined through the generalized Cauchy-Riemann operator we obtain the direct sum decomposition of

Generating Self-Map Monoids of Infinite Sets

Let be a countably infinite set, the group of permutations of , and the monoid of self-maps of . Given two subgroups , let us write if there exists a finite subset such that the groups generated by and are equal. Bergman and Shelah showed that the subgroups which are closed in the function topology on S fall into exactly four equivalence classes with respect to . Letting denote the obvious analog of for submonoids of E, we prove an analogous result for a certain class of submonoids of E, from which the theorem for groups can be recovered. Along the way, we show that given two subgroups which are closed in the function topology on S, we have if and only if (as submonoids of E), and that for every subgroup (where denotes the closure of G in the function topology in S and its closure in the function topology in E).     

Homogenization of Non-Linear Variational Problems with Thin Low-Conducting Layers

This paper deals with the homogenization of a sequence of non-linear conductivity energies in a bounded open set The energy density is of the same order as where is periodic, u is a vector-valued function in and The conductivity is equal to 1 in the "hard" phases composed by two by two disjoint-closure periodic sets while tends uniformly to 0 in the "soft" phases composed by periodic thin layers which separate the hard phases. We prove that the limit energy, according to γ-convergence, is a multi-phase functional equal to the sum of the homogenized energies (of order 1) induced by the hard phases plus an interaction energy (of order 0) due to the soft phases. The number of limit phases is less than or equal to N and is obtained by evaluating the γ-limit of the rescaled energy of density in the torus. Therefore, the homogenization result is achieved by a double γ-convergence procedure since the cell problem depends on ε.     

Line Transversals to Translates of Unit Discs

Let be a family of convex figures in the plane. We say that has property T if there exists a line intersecting every member of . Also, the family has property T(k) if every k-membered subfamily of has property T. Let B be the unit disc centered at the origin. In this paper we prove that if a finite family of translates of B has property T(4) then the family , where , has property T. We also give some results concerning families of translates of the unit disc which has either property T(3) or property T(5).     

The Entropy in Learning Theory. Error Estimates

We continue the investigation of some problems in learning theory in the setting formulated by F. Cucker and S. Smale. The goal is to find an estimator on the base of given data that approximates well the regression function of an unknown Borel probability measure defined on We assume that belongs to a function class It is known from previous works that the behavior of the entropy numbers of in the uniform norm plays an important role in the above problem. The standard way of measuring the error between a target function and an estimator is to use the norm ( is the marginal probability measure on X generated by ). This method has been used in previous papers. We continue to use this method in this paper. The use of the norm in measuring the error has motivated us to study the case when we make an assumption on the entropy numbers of in the norm. This is the main new ingredient of thispaper. We construct good estimators in different settings: (1) we know both and ; (2) we know but we do not know and (3) we only know that is from a known collection of classes but we do not know An estimator from the third setting is called a universal estimator.     

Nonperiodic Sampling of Bandlimited Functions on Unions of Rectangular Lattices

It is shown that a function is completely determined by the samples of on sets where and is irrational if and of If then the samples of on and only the first k derivatives of at 0 are required to determine f completely. Higher dimensional analogues of these results, which apply to functions and are proven. The sampling results are sharp in the sense that if any condition is omitted, there exist nonzero and satisfying the rest. It is shown that the one-dimensional sampling sets correspond to Bessel sequences of complex exponentials that are not Riesz bases for A signal processing application in which such sampling sets arise naturally is described in detail.     

Orthogonal Algebraic Polynomial Schauder Bases of Optimal Degree

For any fixed we construct an orthonormal Schauder basis for C[-1,1] consisting of algebraic polynomials with The orthogonality is with respect to the Chebyshev weight.     

Heat Equation with Dynamical Boundary Conditions of Locally Reactive Type

The aim of this paper is to study the well-posedness of the initial-boundary value problem

Hardy Spaces for Laguerre Expansions

Let be the standard Laguerre functions of type a. We denote . Let and be the semigroups associated with the orthonormal systems and . We say that a function f belongs to the Hardy space associated with one of the semigroups if the corresponding maximal function belongs to . We prove special atomic decompositions of the elements of the Hardy spaces.     

Density, Overcompleteness, and Localization of Frames. I. Theory

Frames have applications in numerous fields of mathematics and engineering. The fundamental property of frames which makes them so useful is their overcompleteness. In most applications, it is this overcompleteness that is exploited to yield a decomposition that is more stable, more robust, or more compact than is possible using nonredundant systems. This work presents a quantitative framework for describing the overcompleteness of frames. It introduces notions of localization and approximation between two frames and ( a discrete abelian group), relating the decay of the expansion of the elements of in terms of the elements of via a map . A fundamental set of equalities are shown between three seemingly unrelated quantities: The relative measure of , the relative measure of — both of which are determined by certain averages of inner products of frame elements with their corresponding dual frame elements — and the density of the set in . Fundamental new results are obtained on the excess and overcompleteness of frames, on the relationship between frame bounds and density, and on the structure of the dual frame of a localized frame. In a subsequent article, these results are applied to the case of Gabor frames, producing an array of new results as well as clarifying the meaning of existing results. The notion of localization and related approximation properties introduced in this article are a spectrum of ideas that quantify the degree to which elements of one frame can be approximated by elements of another frame. A comprehensive examination of the interrelations among these localization and approximation concepts is presented.