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Title: An invitation to Gabor analysis
Gabor analysis, which can be traced back to Dennis Gabor's influential 1946 paper "Theory of communication," is concerned with both the theory and the applications of the approximation properties of sets of time and frequency shifts of a given window function. It re-emerged with the advent of wavelets at the end of the last century and is now at the intersection of many fields of mathematics, applied mathematics, engineering, and science. The goal of this paper is to give a brief introduction to Gabor analysis by elaborating on three open problems.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1814253
PAR ID:
10096729
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN:
1088-9477
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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