Continuous Donoho-Elad Spark Uncertainty Principle

Abstract

Donoho and Elad \textit{[Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2003]} introduced the important notion of the spark of a frame, using which they derived a fundamental uncertainty principle. Based on spark, they also provided a necessary and sufficient condition for the uniqueness of sparse solutions to the NP-hard $\ell_0$-minimization problem. In this nano note, we show that the notion of spark can be extended to linear maps whose domains are measure spaces. Using this generalization, we derive an uncertainty principle and provide a sufficient condition for the existence of sparse solutions to linear systems on measure spaces.