Windowed Fourier transform of two-dimensional quaternionic signals

In this paper, we generalize the classical windowed Fourier transform (WFT) to quaternion-valued signals, called the quaternionic windowed Fourier transform (QWFT). Using the spectral representation of the quaternionic Fourier transform (QFT), we derive several important properties such as reconstruction formula, reproducing kernel, isometry, and orthogonality relation. Taking the Gaussian function as window function we obtain quaternionic Gabor filters which play the role of coefficient functions when decomposing the signal in the quaternionic Gabor basis. We apply the QWFT properties and the (right-sided) QFT to establish a Heisenberg type uncertainty principle for the QWFT. Finally, we briefly introduce an application of the QWFT to a linear time-varying system.     

On generalized hyperinterpolation on the sphere

It is shown that second-order results can be attained by the generalized hyperinterpolation operators on the sphere, which gives an affirmative answer to a question raised by Reimer in Constr. Approx. 18(2002), no. 2, 183-203.

     

A new linogram algorithm for computerized tomography

We propose a new linogram algorithm for the high quality Fourierreconstruction of digital N x N images from their Radon transform.The algorithm is based on univariate fast Fourier transformsfor nonequispaced data in the time domain and in the frequencydomain. The algorithm requires only O(N² logN) arithmetic operationsand preserves the good reconstruction quality of the filteredbackprojection.     

Remarks on the degenerate Radon transform in

The aim of this note is to prove endpoint boundedness of the generalized Radon transform which was introduced by Phong and Stein. M. Christ's combinatorial method is used to obtain restricted weak type at the endpoints. Also we show that the results of this note are essentially optimal.

     

The Cauchy Transform * (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 125) * By Joseph A. Cima, Alec L. Matheson and William T. Ross: * 272 pp., {pound}43.75 (US$75), ISBN 0-8218-3871-7 * (American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2006).

In the border country between complex analysis, harmonic analysisand differential equations, there can be found many populartransforms, of which those of Fourier and Laplace are probablythe most commonly used. This book is concerned with anotherone, which is more rarely sighted. The Cauchy transform of a finite complex measure µ definedon the unit circle in the complex plane is the analytic functionKµ defined by

forz in the unit disc . Its name derives from the observation thatCauchy's integral formula, when applied to an analytic functionf, is equivalent to the statement that the Cauchy transformof the measure is just     

The Higher Dimensional Hermite Transform: A New Approach

In this article we expand the filter functions of the classical Hermite transform into the Clifford-Hermite polynomials. Furthermore, we construct a new higher dimensional Hermite transform within the framework of Clifford analysis using the radial and generalized Clifford-Hermite polynomials. Finally we compare this newly introduced Clifford-Hermite transform with the Clifford-Hermite Continuous Wavelet transform.     

Filament sets, aposyndesis, and the decomposition theorem of Jones

Applications of the work introduced by the authors in a recent article, Filament sets and homogeneous continua, are given to aposyndesis and local connectedness. The aposyndetic decomposition theorem of Jones is generalized to spaces with the property of Kelley.

     

Schatten–von Neumann norm inequalities for two-wavelet localization operators associated with β-Stockwell transforms

In this article we define two-wavelet localization operators corresponding to an irreducible and square-integrable representation of a locally compact Hausdorff group on a Hilbert space. The group structure admitting an irreducible and square-integrable representation which is related to β-Stockwell transform, that we shall use in this article β?∈?R have been introduced in Boggiatto et al. [P. Boggiatto, C. Fernandez, and A. Galbis, A group representation related to the Stockwell transform, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 58(5) (2009), pp. 2277–2296]. The Schatten–von Neumann norm inequalities of these two-wavelet localization operators are established. The traces and the trace class norm inequalities of the trace class two-wavelet localization operators are given.     

Computation of the eigenvalues of Sturm-Liouville problems with parameter dependent boundary conditions using the regularized sampling method

The purpose in this paper is to compute the eigenvalues of Sturm-Liouville problems with quite general separated boundary conditions nonlinear in the eigenvalue parameter using the regularized sampling method, an improvement on the method based on Shannon sampling theory, which does not involve any multiple integration and provides higher order estimates of the eigenvalues at a very low cost. A few examples shall be presented to illustrate the power of the method and a comparison made with the the exact eigenvalues obtained as squares of the zeros of the exact characteristic functions.

     

Noninterpolatory Hermite subdivision schemes

Bivariate interpolatory Hermite subdivision schemes have recently been applied to build free-form subdivision surfaces. It is well known to geometric modelling practitioners that interpolatory schemes typically lead to ``unfair" surfaces--surfaces with unwanted wiggles or undulations--and noninterpolatory (a.k.a. approximating in the CAGD community) schemes are much preferred in geometric modelling applications. In this article, we introduce, analyze and construct noninterpolatory Hermite subdivision schemes, a class of vector subdivision schemes which can be applied to iteratively refine Hermite data in a not necessarily interpolatory fashion. We also study symmetry properties of such subdivision schemes which are crucial for application in free-form subdivision surfaces.

A key step in our mathematical analysis of Hermite type subdivision schemes is that we make use of the strong convergence theory of refinement equations to convert a prescribed geometric condition on the subdivision scheme--namely, the subdivision scheme is of Hermite type--to an algebraic condition on the subdivision mask. The latter algebraic condition can then be used in a computational framework to construct specific schemes.

     

A one‐dimensional Radon transform on SO(3) and its application to texture goniometry

We consider a one‐dimensional Radon transform on the group SO (3), which is motivated by texture goniometry. In particular, we will derive several inversion formulae and compare them with the inversion of the one‐dimensional spherical Radon transform on ??³ for even functions. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Mehler-Fock transforms of generalized functions via the method of adjoints

In this paper we analyse the Mehler-Fock transform of generalized functions via the method of adjoints. For a distribution of compact support, we prove that its Mehler-Fock transform agrees with its transform via the kernel method. A Paley-Wiener type theorem is established.

     

Regular rapidly decreasing nonlinear generalized functions. Application to microlocal regularity

We present new types of regularity for nonlinear generalized functions, based on the notion of regular growth with respect to the regularizing parameter of the Colombeau simplified model. This generalizes the notion of G^∞-regularity introduced by M. Oberguggenberger. A key point is that these regularities can be characterized, for compactly supported generalized functions, by a property of their Fourier transform. This opens the door to microanalysis of singularities of generalized functions, with respect to these regularities. We present a complete study of this topic, including properties of the Fourier transform (exchange and regularity theorems) and relationship with classical theory, via suitable results of embeddings.     

Orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle associated with the Laguerre polynomials

Using the well-known fact that the Fourier transform is unitary, we obtain a class of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle from the Fourier transform of the Laguerre polynomials (with suitable weights attached). Some related extremal problems which arise naturally in this setting are investigated.

     

An unusual self-adjoint linear partial differential operator

In an American Mathematical Society Memoir, published in 2003, the authors Everitt and Markus apply their prior theory of symplectic algebra to the study of symmetric linear partial differential expressions, and the generation of self-adjoint differential operators in Sobolev Hilbert spaces. In the case when the differential expression has smooth coefficients on the closure of a bounded open region, in Euclidean space, and when the region has a smooth boundary, this theory leads to the construction of certain self-adjoint partial differential operators which cannot be defined by applying classical or generalized conditions on the boundary of the open region.

This present paper concerns the spectral properties of one of these unusual self-adjoint operators, sometimes called the ``Harmonic' operator.

The boundary value problems considered in the Memoir (see above) and in this paper are called regular in that the cofficients of the differential expression do not have singularities within or on the boundary of the region; also the region is bounded and has a smooth boundary. Under these and some additional technical conditions it is shown in the Memoir, and emphasized in this present paper, that all the self-adjoint operators considered are explicitly determined on their domains by the partial differential expression; this property makes a remarkable comparison with the case of symmetric ordinary differential expressions.

In the regular ordinary case the spectrum of all the self-adjoint operators is discrete in that it consists of a countable number of eigenvalues with no finite point of accumulation, and each eigenvalue is of finite multiplicity. Thus the essential spectrum of all these operators is empty.

This spectral property extends to the present partial differential case for the classical Dirichlet and Neumann operators but not to the Harmonic operator. It is shown in this paper that the Harmonic operator has an eigenvalue of infinite multiplicity at the origin of the complex spectral plane; thus the essential spectrum of this operator is not empty.

Both the weak and strong formulations of the Harmonic boundary value problem are considered; these two formulations are shown to be equivalent.

In the final section of the paper examples are considered which show that the Harmonic operator, defined by the methods of symplectic algebra, has a domain that cannot be determined by applying either classical or generalized local conditions on the boundary of the region.

     

Actuarial risk measures for financial derivative pricing

We present an axiomatic characterization of price measures that are superadditive and comonotonic additive for normally distributed random variables. The price representation derived involves a probability measure transform that is closely related to the Esscher transform, and we call it the Esscher-Girsanov transform. In a financial market in which the primary asset price is represented by a stochastic differential equation with respect to Brownian motion, the price mechanism based on the Esscher-Girsanov transform can generate approximate-arbitrage-free financial derivative prices.     

Cluster-tilted algebras

We introduce a new class of algebras, which we call cluster-tilted. They are by definition the endomorphism algebras of tilting objects in a cluster category. We show that their representation theory is very close to the representation theory of hereditary algebras. As an application of this, we prove a generalised version of so-called APR-tilting.

     

A Strengthening of Resolution of Singularities in Characteristic Zero

Let X be a closed subscheme embedded in a scheme W, smooth overa field k of characteristic zero, and let I (X) be the sheafof ideals defining X. Assume that the set of regular pointsof X is dense in X. We prove that there exists a proper, birationalmorphism, : W_r W, obtained as a composition of monoidal transformations,so that if X_r W_r denotes the strict transform of X W then: (1) the morphism : W_r W is an embedded desingularization ofX (as in Hironaka's Theorem); (2) the total transform of I (X) in factors as a product of an invertible sheaf of ideals L supportedon the exceptional locus, and the sheaf of ideals defining thestrict transform of X (that is, . Thus (2) asserts that we can obtain, in a simple manner, theequations defining the desingularization of X. 2000 MathematicalSubject Classification: 14E15.     

A characterization of inverse Radon transform on the Laguerre hypergroup

Let K=[0,∞)×R be the Laguerre hypergroup which is the fundamental manifold of the radial function space for the Heisenberg group. In this note we give another characterization for a subspace of S(K) (Schwartz space) such that the Radon transform Rα on K is a bijection. We show that this characterization is equivalent to that in [M.M. Nessibi, K. Trimèche, Inversion of the Radon transform on the Laguerre hypergroup by using generalized wavelets, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 208 (1997) 337-363]. In addition, we establish an inversion formula of the Radon transform Rα in the weak sense.