Symplectic and Hamiltonian Deformations of Gabor Frames

Abstract

We study symplectic deformations of Gabor frames using the covariance properties of the Heisenberg operators. This allows us to recover in a very simple way known results. We thereafter propose a general deformation scheme by Hamiltonian isotopies, which are paths of Hamiltonian flows. We define and study in detail a weak notion of Hamiltonian deformations, using ideas from semiclassical analysis due to Heller and Hagedorn. This method can be easily implemented using symplectic integrators.