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Universal Factorizations of Quasiperiodic Functions

Dynamical Systems 2015-01-27 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Chirped sinosoids and interferometric phase plots are functions that are not periodic, but are the composition of a smooth function and a periodic function. These functions functions factor into a pair of maps: from their domain to a circle, and from a circle to their codomain. One can easily imagine replacing the circle with other phase spaces to obtain a general quasiperiodic function. This paper shows that under appropriate restrictions, each quasiperiodic function has a unique universal factorization. Quasiperiodic functions can therefore be classified based on their phase space and the phase function mapping into it.

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@article{arxiv.1501.06190,
  title  = {Universal Factorizations of Quasiperiodic Functions},
  author = {Michael Robinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.06190},
  year   = {2015}
}

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