An uncertainty inequality for Fourier-Dunkl series

An uncertainty inequality for the Fourier-Dunkl series, introduced by the authors in [Ó. Ciaurri, J.L. Varona, A Whittaker-Shannon-Kotel’nikov sampling theorem related to the Dunkl transform, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007) 2939-2947], is proved. This result is an extension of the classical uncertainty inequality for the Fourier series.     

An inequality for a periodic uncertainty constant

An inequality refining the lower bound for a periodic (Breitenberger) uncertainty constant is proved for a wide class of functions. A connection of uncertainty constants for periodic and non-periodic functions is extended to this class. A particular minimization problem for a non-periodic (Heisenberg) uncertainty constant is studied.     

The boundedness of Weyl multiplier on Hardy spaces associated with twisted convolution

In this paper, we will consider the boundedness of Weyl multiplier on Hardy spaces associated with twisted convolution. In order to get our result, we need to give some characterizations of the Hardy space associated with twisted convolution. Including Lusin area integral, Littlewood-Paley g-function.     

Calderón's formula associated with a differential operator on (0, ∞) and inversion of the generalized abel transform

We prove a Calderón reproducing formula for a continuous wavelet transform associated with a class of singular differential operators on the half line. We apply this result to derive a new inversion formula for the generalized Abel transform.     

Smooth PONS

PONS^tm is a basis which satisfies all of the fundamental properties of the Walsh functions (each element is piecewise constant, takes on only the values ±1, and can be efficiently computed via a fast transform) plus three additional properties that are false for the Walsh functions: PONS is optimal with respect to a global uncertainty principle; all PONS elements have uniformly bounded crest factors; and all PONS elements are QMF’s. In 1991, Ingrid Daubechies asked whether there exists a smooth basis satisfying the global uncertainty principle property. In this article we show how to transform any basis into another basis by applying the PONS construction, thereby providing an affirmative answer to this question.     

On dualizing a multivariable Poisson summation formula

It is known [7] that dualizing a form of the Poisson summation formula yields a pair of linear transformations which map a function ø of one variable into a function and its cosine transform in a generalized sense. The present work presents conditions on ø for which the transform relation holds in the classical sense, and extends this result to a class of generalizations of the Poisson formula in any number of dimensions.     

Beurling-Landau-type theorems for non-uniform sampling in shift invariant spline spaces

Under the appropriate definition of sampling density D_ϕ, a function f that belongs to a shift invariant space can be reconstructed in a stable way from its non-uniform samples only if D_ϕ≥1. This result is similar to Landau's result for the Paley-Wiener space B _1/2 . If the shift invariant space consists of polynomial splines, then we show that D_ϕ<1 is sufficient for the stable reconstruction of a function f from its samples, a result similar to Beurling's special case B _1/2 .     

The uncertainty principle: A mathematical survey

We survey various mathematical aspects of the uncertainty principle, including Heisenberg’s inequality and its variants, local uncertainty inequalities, logarithmic uncertainty inequalities, results relating to Wigner distributions, qualitative uncertainty principles, theorems on approximate concentration, and decompositions of phase space.     

On a monotonic trigonometric sum

By establishing a cosine analogue of a result of Askey and Steinig on a monotonic sine sum, this paper sharpens and unifies several results associated with Young's inequality for the partial sums of k ^–1 cosk.     

Sampling multipliers and the Poisson Summation Formula

Periodization and sampling operators are defined, and the Fourier transform of periodization is uniform sampling in a well-defined sense. Implementing this point of view, Poisson Summation Formulas are proved in several spaces including integrable functions of bounded variation (where the result is known) and elements of mixed norm spaces. These Poisson Summation Formulas can be used to prove corresponding sampling theorems. The sampling operators used to understand and prove the aforementioned Poisson Summation Formulas lead to the introduction of spaces of continuous linear operators which commute with integer translations. Operators L of this type are appropriately called sampling multipliers. For a given function f, they give rise to new sampling formulas, whose sampling coefficients are of the form Lf. In practice, Lf can be used to model noisy data or data where point values are not available. By representation theorems of the second named author, some of these operator spaces are proved to be mixed norm spaces. The approach and results of this paper were developed in the context of Duffin and Schaeffer’s theory of frames. In particular, sampling multipliers L are related to the Bessel map used by Duffin and Schaeffer in their definition of the frame operator. The first named author was supported in part by AFOSR contract F49620-96-1-0193. The second named author was supported by the Cusanuswerk.     

Statistical manifolds are statistical models

In this note we prove that any smooth (C¹ resp.) statistical manifold can be embedded into the space of probability measures on a finite set. As a result, we get positive answers to Lauritzen’s question and Amari’s question on a realization of smooth (C¹ resp.) statistical manifolds as finite dimensional statistical models.     

Extrapolation from A∞ weights and applications

We generalize the A_p extrapolation theorem of Rubio de Francia to A_∞ weights in the context of Muckenhoupt bases. Our result has several important features. First, it can be used to prove weak endpoint inequalities starting from strong-type inequalities, something which is impossible using the classical result. Second, it provides an alternative to the technique of good-λ inequalities for proving L^p norm inequalities relating operators. Third, it yields vector-valued inequalities without having to use the theory of Banach space valued operators. We give a number of applications to maximal functions, singular integrals, potential operators, commutators, multilinear Calderón-Zygmund operators, and multiparameter fractional integrals. In particular, we give new proofs, which completely avoid the good-λ inequalities, of Coifman's inequality relating singular integrals and the maximal operator, of the Fefferman-Stein inequality relating the maximal operator and the sharp maximal operator, and the Muckenhoupt-Wheeden inequality relating the fractional integral operator and the fractional maximal operator.     

Uncertainty products of local periodic wavelets

This paper is on the angle–frequency localization of periodic scaling functions and wavelets. It is shown that the uncertainty products of uniformly local, uniformly regular and uniformly stable scaling functions and wavelets are uniformly bounded from above by a constant. Results for the construction of such scaling functions and wavelets are also obtained. As an illustration, scaling functions and wavelets associated with a family of generalized periodic splines are studied. This family is generated by periodic weighted convolutions, and it includes the well‐known periodic B‐splines and trigonometric B‐splines. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

On the total absolute curvature of an immersed sphere

A recent result of Tobias Ekholm [T. Ekholm, Regular homotopy and total curvature II: Sphere immersions into 3-space, Alg. Geom. Topol. 6 (2006) 493-513] shows that for every ?>0 it is possible to construct a sphere eversion such that the total absolute curvature of the immersed spheres are always less than 8π+?. It is an open question whether this is the best possible. The paper contains results relating to this conjecture. As an interesting consequence of these methods it is shown that if during an eversion the total absolute curvature does not exceed 12π then a certain topological event must take place, namely the immersion must become non-simple at some point. An immersion f in general position is simple if for any irreducible self-intersection curve of f in 3-space, its two pre-image curves in the sphere are disjoint.     

Applications of generalized perron trees to maximal functions and density bases

In this article we give some new necessary conditions for subsets of the unit circle to give collections of rectangles (by means of orientations) which differentiate L^p-functions or give Hardy-Littlewood type maximal functions which are bounded on L^p, p>1. This is done by proving that a well-known method, the construction of a Perron Tree, can be applied to a larger collection of subsets of the unit circle than was earlier known. As applications, we prove a partial converse of a well-known result of Nagel et al. [6] regarding boundedness of maximal functions with respect to rectangles of lacunary directions, and prove a result regarding the cardinality of subsets of arithmetic progressions in sets of the type described above. Acknowledgements and Notes. This research was partially supported by NSERC.     

A necessary condition for Calderón-Zygmund singular integral operators

Calderón-Zygmund singular integral operators have been extensively studied for almost half a century. This paper provides a context for and proof of the following result: If a Calderón-Zygmund convolution singular integral operator is bounded on the Hardy space H¹ (Rⁿ), then the homogeneous of degree zero kernel is in the Hardy space H¹(S^n–1) on the sphere.     

Divergent fourier series: Numerical experiments

An open problem in the theory of Fourier series is whether there are functions f L ₁ such that the partial sums S _n(f, x) diverge faster than log log n, almost everywhere in x. For a class of particularly bad functions Kahane proved that the rate of divergence is faster than o(log log n). We give here a probabilistic interpretation of the Kahane result, which shows that the record values of the sums S _n(f, x) should behave essentially as the record values of a sequence of independent identically distributed random variables, for which we deduce the divergence rate log log n. Numerical computation is in good agreement with the prediction. One can argue that the Kahane examples are in some sense optimal, and conclude that, under this assumption, ...(log log n) is the highest possible rate for divergence almost everywhere of the Fourier partial sums for L ₁ functions.     

Bilinear operators with non-smooth symbol, I

This article proves the L^p-boundedness of general bilinear operators associated to a symbol or multiplier which need not be smooth. The Main Theorem establishes a general result for multipliers that are allowed to have singularities along the edges of a cone as well as possibly at its vertex. It thus unifies earlier results of Coifman-Meyer for smooth multipliers and ones, such the Bilinear Hilbert transform of Lacey-Thiele, where the multiplier is not smooth. Using a Whitney decomposition in the Fourier plane, a general bilinear operator is represented as infinite discrete sums of time-frequency paraproducts obtained by associating wave-packets with tiles in phase-plane. Boundedness for the general bilinear operator then follows once the corresponding L^p-boundedness of time-frequency paraproducts has been established. The latter result is the main theorem proved in Part in Part II, our subsequent article [11], using phase-plane analysis. In memory of A.P. Calderón     

Estimation of the integral modulus of smoothness of an even function of several variables with quasiconvex Fourier coefficients

The estimate of the modulus of smoothness of an even function of several variables with quasiconvex fourier coefficients obtained in this paper extends one result of S. A. Telyakovski.     

Rank-deficient submatrices of Fourier matrices

We consider the maximal rank-deficient submatrices of Fourier matrices with order a power of a prime number. We do this by considering a hierarchical subdivision of these matrices into low rank blocks. We also explore some connections with the fast Fourier transform (FFT), and with an uncertainty principle for Fourier transforms over finite Abelian groups.