Curvelets and Fourier Integral Operators

A recent body of work introduced new tight-frames of curvelets E. Candès, D. Donoho, in: (i) Curvelets – a suprisingly effective nonadaptive representation for objects with edges (A. Cohen, C. Rabut, L. Schumaker (Eds.)), Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, 2000, pp. 105–120; (ii) http://www.acm.caltech.edu/~emmanuel/publications.html, 2002 to address key problems in approximation theory and image processing. This paper shows that curvelets essentially provide optimally sparse representations of Fourier Integral Operators. To cite this article: E. Candès, L. Demanet, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 336 (2003).