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The Nyquist sampling rate for spiraling curves

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2022-05-04 v5

Abstract

We consider the problem of reconstructing a compactly supported function from samples of its Fourier transform taken along a spiral. We determine the Nyquist sampling rate in terms of the density of the spiral and show that below this rate spirals suffer from an approximate form of aliasing. This sets a limit to the amount of undersampling that compressible signals admit when sampled along spirals. More precisely, we derive a lower bound on the condition number for the reconstruction of functions of bounded variation, and for functions that are sparse in the Haar wavelet basis.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1811.01771,
  title  = {The Nyquist sampling rate for spiraling curves},
  author = {Philippe Jaming and Felipe Negreira and José Luis Romero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.01771},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

30 pages, 8 figures

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