Gitta Kutyniok
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Zuowei Shen
National University of Singapore
Singapore
AppliedandNumericalHarmonicAnalysisSeriesEditorJohnJ.BenedettoUniversityofMarylandCollegePark,MD,USAEditorialAdvisoryBoardAkramAldroubiVanderbiltUniversityNashville,TN,USAAndreaBertozziUniversityofCaliforniaLosAngeles,CA,USADouglasCochranArizonaStateUniversityPhoenix,AZ,USAHansG.FeichtingerUniversityofViennaVienna,AustriaChristopherHeilGeorgiaInstituteofTechnologyAtlanta,GA,USAStéphaneJaffardUniversityofParisXIIParis,FranceJelenaKovaˇcevi´cCarnegieMellonUniversityPittsburgh,PA,USAMauroMaggioniDukeUniversityDurham,NC,USAThomasStrohmerUniversityofCaliforniaDavis,CA,USAYangWangMichiganStateUniversityEastLansing,MI,USA
Stochastic Models,
Information Theory,
and Lie Groups,
Volume 2
Analytic Methods and Modern Applications
Gregory S. Chirikjian
ISBN 978-0-8176-
-2
DOI 10.1007/978-0-8176-
Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London
4944-9
4943
e-ISBN 978-0-8176-
4944-9
Library of Congress Control Number:
2011941792
Mathematics Subject Classification
94A15, 94A17
(2010): 2E60, 53Bxx, 53C65, 58A15, 58J65, 60D05, 60H10, 70G45, 82C31,
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ANHASeriesPrefaceTheAppliedandNumericalHarmonicAnalysis(ANHA)bookseriesaimstoprovidetheengineering,mathematical,andscientificcommunitieswithsignificantdevelopmentsinharmonicanalysis,rangingfromabstractharmonicanalysistobasicapplications.Thetitleoftheseriesreflectstheimportanceofapplicationsandnumericalimplementation,butrichnessandrelevanceofapplicationsandimplementationdependfundamentallyonthestructureanddepthoftheoreticalunderpinnings.Thus,fromourpointofview,theinterleavingoftheoryandapplicationsandtheircreativesymbioticevolutionisaxiomatic.Harmonicanalysisisawellspringofideasandapplicabilitythathasflourished,de-veloped,anddeepenedovertimewithinmanydisciplinesandbymeansofcreativecross-fertilizationwithdiverseareas.Theintricateandfundamentalrelationshipbe-tweenharmonicanalysisandfieldssuchassignalprocessing,partialdifferentialequa-tions(PDEs),andimageprocessingisreflectedinourstate-of-the-artANHAseries.Ourvisionofmodernharmonicanalysisincludesmathematicalareassuchaswavelettheory,Banachalgebras,classicalFourieranalysis,time-frequencyanalysis,andfractalgeometry,aswellasthediversetopicsthatimpingeonthem.Forexample,wavelettheorycanbeconsideredanappropriatetooltodealwithsomebasicproblemsindigitalsignalprocessing,speechandimageprocessing,geophysics,patternrecognition,biomedicalengineering,andturbulence.Theseareasimplementthelatesttechnologyfromsamplingmethodsonsurfacestofastalgorithmsandcom-putervisionmethods.TheunderlyingmathematicsofwavelettheorydependsnotonlyonclassicalFourieranalysis,butalsoonideasfromabstractharmonicanalysis,includ-ingvonNeumannalgebrasandtheaffinegroup.ThisleadstoastudyoftheHeisenberggroupanditsrelationshiptoGaborsystems,andofthemetaplecticgroupforamean-ingfulinteractionofsignaldecompositionmethods.Theunifyinginfluenceofwavelettheoryintheaforementionedtopicsillustratesthejustificationforprovidingameansforcentralizinganddisseminatinginformationfromthebroader,butstillfocused,areaofharmonicanalysis.ThiswillbeakeyroleofANHA.Weintendtopublishwiththescopeandinteractionthatsuchahostofissuesdemands.Alongwithourcommitmenttopublishmathematicallysignificantworksatthefrontiersofharmonicanalysis,wehaveacomparablystrongcommitmenttopublishmajoradvancesinthefollowingapplicabletopicsinwhichharmonicanalysisplaysasubstantialrole:vii