Title

An inhomogeneous uncertainty principle for digital low-pass filters

Authors

Authors

B. G. Bodmann; M. Papadakis;Q. Y. Sun

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Fourier Anal. Appl.

Keywords

digital low-pass filter; filter efficiency; uncertainty principle; trigonometric polynomials; WAVELETS; Mathematics, Applied

Abstract

This article introduces an inhomogeneous uncertainty principle for digital low-pass filters. The measure for uncertainty is a product of two factors evaluating the frequency selectivity in comparison with the ideal filter and the effective length of the filter in the digital domain, respectively. We derive a sharp lower bound for this product in the class of filters with so-called finite effective length and show the absence of minimizers. We find necessary and certain sufficient conditions to identify minimizing sequences. When the class of filters is restricted to a given maximal length, we show the existence of an uncertainty minimizer. The uncertainty product of such minimizing filters approaches the unrestricted infimum as the filter length increases. We examine the asymptotics and explicitly construct a sequence of finite-length filters with the same asymptotics as the sequence of finite-length minimizers.

Journal Title

Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications

Volume

12

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

181

Last Page

211

WOS Identifier

WOS:000237913400005

ISSN

1069-5869

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