Prony Scenarios and Error Amplification in a Noisy Spike-Train Reconstruction

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the characterization of the geometry of Prony curves arising from spike-train signals. We give a sufficient condition which guarantees the blowing up of the amplitudes of a Prony curve S in case where some of its nodes tend to collide. We also give sufficient conditions on S which guarantee a certain asymptotic behavior of its nodes near infinity.