Admissibility for $\alpha$-Modulation Spaces

This paper is concerned with frame decompositions of $\alpha$-modulation spaces. These spaces can be obtained as coorbit spaces for square-integrable representations of the affine Weyl-Heisenberg group modulo suitable subgroups. The theory yields canonical constructions for Banach frames or atomic decompositions in $\alpha$-modulation spaces. A necessary ingredient in this abstract machinery is the existence of generating functions that are admissible for the representation. For numerical purposes, admissible atoms with compact support are necessary. We show new admissibility conditions that considerably improve upon known results. In particular, we prove the existence of admissible vectors that have compact support in time domain.