Nonstationary frames of translates and frames from the Weyl–Heisenberg group and the extended affine group *

Abstract

Abstract In this work, we analyze Gabor frames for the Weyl–Heisenberg group and wavelet frames for the extended affine group. Firstly, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of nonstationary frames of translates. Using these conditions, we prove the existence of Gabor frames from the Weyl–Heisenberg group and wavelet frames for the extended affine group. We present a representation of functions in the closure of the linear span of a Gabor frame sequence in terms of the Fourier transform of window functions. We show that the canonical dual of frames of translates has the same structure. An approximation of the inverse of the frame operator of nonstationary frames of translates is presented. It is shown that a nonstationary frame of translates is a Riesz basis if it is linearly independent and satisfies the approximation of the inverse frame operator. Finally, we give equivalent conditions for a nonstationary sequence of translates to be linearly independent.