Metaplectic Gabor frames of Wigner-Decomposable Distributions

Abstract

Metaplectic Wigner distributions generalize the most popular time-frequency representations, such as the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) and $\tau$-Wigner distributions, using metaplectic operators. However, in order for a metaplectic Wigner distribution to measure local time-frequency concentration of signals, the additional property of shift-invertibility is fundamental. In addition, metaplectic atoms provide different ways to model signals. Namely, signals can be written as discrete superpositions of these operators, providing original ways to represent signals, with applications to machine learning, signal analysis, theory of pseudodifferential operators, to mention a few. Among all shift-invertible distributions, Wigner-decomposable metaplectic Wigner distributions provide the most straightforward generalization of the STFT. In this work, we focus on metaplectic atoms of Wigner-decomposable shift-invertible metaplectic distributions and characterize the associated metaplectic Gabor frames.