Mathematics – Functional Analysis
Scientific paper
2006-05-15
Mathematics
Functional Analysis
31 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
It is known that the continuous wavelet transform of a function $f$ decays very rapidly near the points where $f$ is smooth, while it decays slowly near the irregular points. This property allows one to precisely identify the singular support of $f$. However, the continuous wavelet transform is unable to provide additional information about the geometry of the singular points. In this paper, we introduce a new transform for functions and distributions on $\R^2$, called the Continuous Shearlet Transform. This is defined by $\mathcal{S}\mathcal{H}_f(a,s,t) = \ip{f}{\psi_{ast}}$, where the analyzing elements $\psi_{ast}$ are dilated and translated copies of a single generating function $\psi$ and, thus, they form an affine system. The resulting continuous shearlets $\psi_{ast}$ are smooth functions at continuous scales $a >0$, locations $t \in \R^2$ and oriented along lines of slope $s \in \R$ in the frequency domain. The Continuous Shearlet Transform transform is able to identify not only the location of the singular points of a distribution $f$, but also the orientation of their distributed singularities. As a result, we can use this transform to exactly characterize the wavefront set of $f$.
Kutyniok Gitta
Labate Demetrio
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