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Empirical plunge profiles of time-frequency localization operators

Functional Analysis 2025-12-02 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

For time-frequency localization operators, related to the short-time Fourier transform, with symbol RΩR\Omega, we work out the exact large RR eigenvalue behavior for rotationally invariant Ω\Omega and conjecture that the same relation holds for all scaled symbols RΩR \Omega as long as the window is the standard Gaussian. Specifically, we conjecture that the kk-th eigenvalue of the localization operator with symbol RΩR\Omega converges to 12erfc(2πkR2ΩRΩ)\frac{1}{2}\operatorname{erfc}\big( \sqrt{2\pi}\frac{k-R^2|\Omega|}{R|\partial \Omega|} \big) as RR \to \infty. To support the conjecture, we compute the eigenvalues of discrete frame multipliers with various symbols using LTFAT and find that they agree with the behavior of the conjecture to a large degree.

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@article{arxiv.2502.11805,
  title  = {Empirical plunge profiles of time-frequency localization operators},
  author = {Simon Halvdansson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.11805},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 pages, 12 figures