Lattice size estimates for Gabor decompositions

It is shown that the Gabor frame operator for frames with lattice such thatab=1/N for some integerN1 is continuous on the modulation spaces ([9], [20]) whenever the basic functiong is a Schwartz function and (g, a, b) generates a frame forL² (R). From this a sufficient condition on the lattice is given which guarantees that one has a Banach frame for the modulation spaces of Feichtinger.This work was supported by NSF grant # DMS-8916968 while the author was visiting Yale University.