Bracket products for Weyl-Heisenberg frames

Abstract

We provide a detailed development of a function valued inner product known as the bracket product and used effectively by de Boor, Devore, Ron and Shen to study translation invariant systems. We develop a version of the bracket product specifically geared to Weyl-Heisenberg frames. This bracket product has all the properties of a standard inner product including Bessel's inequality, a Riesz Representation Theorem, and a Gram-Schmidt process which turns a sequence of functions $(g_{n})$ into a sequence $(e_{n})$ with the property that $(E_{mb}e_{n})_{m,n\in \Bbb Z}$ is orthonormal in $L^{2}(\Bbb R)$. Armed with this inner product, we obtain several results concerning Weyl-Heisenberg frames. First we see that fiberization in this setting takes on a particularly simple form and we use it to obtain a compressed representation of the frame operator. Next, we write down explicitly all those functions $g\in L^{2}(\Bbb R)$ and $ab=1$ so that the family $(E_{mb}T_{na}g)$ is complete in $L^{2}(\Bbb R)$. One consequence of this is that for functions $g$ supported on a half-line $[{\alpha},\infty)$ (in particular, for compactly supported $g$), $(g,1,1)$ is complete if and only if $\text{sup}_{0\le t< a}|g(t-n)|\not= 0$ a.e. Finally, we give a direct proof of a result hidden in the literature by proving: For any $g\in L^{2}(\Bbb R)$, $A\le \sum_{n} |g(t-na)|^{2}\le B$ is equivalent to $(E_{m/a}g)$ being a Riesz basic sequence.