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The paper introduces the concept of complex frequency. The imaginary part of the complex frequency is the variation with respect of a synchronous reference of the local bus frequency as commonly defined in power system studies. The real…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Federico Milano

The classical Fourier analysis of a time signal, in the discrete sense, provides the frequency content of signal under the assumption of periodicity. Although the original signal can be exactly recovered using an inverse transform, the time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Vilas J. Shinde

It is the purpose of the paper to describe the virtues of time-frequency methods for signal processing applications, having astronomical time series in mind. Different methods are considered and their potential usefulness respectively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Vio , W. Wamsteker

The concept of the "statistical significance" of an observation, and how it is used in particle physics experiments is reviewed. More properly known as a "p-value," the statistical foundations for this concept are reviewed from a freqentist…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Pekka K. Sinervo

Graph signal processing deals with signals which are observed on an irregular graph domain. While many approaches have been developed in classical graph theory to cluster vertices and segment large graphs in a signal independent way, signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Ljubisa Stankovic , Danilo P. Mandic , Milos Dakovic , Bruno Scalzo , Milos Brajovic , Ervin Sejdic , Anthony G. Constantinides

The variation of the velocity of a periodic signal and its frequency along the world line of a standard emitter (at rest with an observer) are considered in a space with affine connections and metrics. It is shown that the frequency of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sawa Manoff

In the sciences and engineering, the concept of bandwidth is often subject to interpretation depending upon context and the requirements of a specific community. The focus of this work is to formulate this concept for a general class of…

General Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Alireza Mojahed , Lawrence A. Bergman , Alexander F. Vakakis

Super oscillating signals are band limited signals that oscillate in some region faster than their largest Fourier component. Such signals have many obvious scientific and technological applications, yet their practical use is strongly…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-02-18 Moshe Schwartz , Ehud Perlsman

The "theoretical limit of time-frequency resolution in Fourier analysis" is thought to originate in certain mathematical and/or physical limitations. This, however, is not true. The actual origin arises from the numerical (technical) method…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-28 Fumihiko Ishiyama

This review chapter aims to strengthen the link between frame theory and signal processing tasks in psychoacoustics. On the one side, the basic concepts of frame theory are presented and some proofs are provided to explain those concepts in…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Peter Balazs , Nicki Holighaus , Thibaud Necciari , Diana Stoeva

Resonance, defined as the oscillation of a system when the temporal frequency of an external stimulus matches a natural frequency of the system, is important in both fundamental physics and applied disciplines. However, the spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-16 Zhenyu Wang , Mingzhe Li , Ruifang Wang

Phase noise and frequency (in)stability both describe the fluctuation of stable periodic signals, from somewhat different standpoints. Frequency is unique compared to other domains of metrology, in that its fluctuations of interest span at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-18 Enrico Rubiola , Francois Vernotte

If two signals are phase synchronous then the respective Fourier component at each spectral band should exhibit certain properties. In a pair of artificially generated phase synchronous signals the phase difference at each frequency band…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-04-30 Kaushik Majumdar

This letter seeks to clarify the different existing definitions of both instantaneous complex phase and frequency as well as their equivalence under standard modeling assumptions considered for transmission systems, i.e. balanced positive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 César García-Veloso , Mario Paolone , Federico Milano

Everything that exists has a natural frequency; this material characteristic is something that must be known and fully understood. If we fail to predict, measure, and address potential natural frequency concerns, it could significantly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Nicholas Suits , Masudul Imtiaz

Context: Several approaches to estimate frequency, phase and amplitude errors in time series analyses were reported in the literature, but they are either time consuming to compute, grossly overestimating the error, or are based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Kallinger , P. Reegen , W. W. Weiss

Oscillatory systems arise in the different science fields. Complex mathematical formulations with differential equations have been proposed to model the dynamics of these systems. While they have the advantage of having a direct…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-02 Cristina Rueda , Alejandro Rodríguez-Collado , Yolanda Larriba

Oscillation synchronization phenomenon is widely observed in natural systems through frequency modulated signals, especially in biological neural networks. Frequency modulation is also one of most widely used technologies in engineering.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Zhiyong Chen

This paper shows that the concept of complex frequency, originally introduced to characterize the dynamics of signals with complex values, constitutes a generalization of eigenvalues when applied to the states of linear time-invariant (LTI)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Nikolas Sofos , Federico Milano

Mounting evidence shows that oscillatory activity is widespread in cell signaling. Here we review some of this recent evidence, focusing on both the molecular mechanisms that potentially underlie such dynamical behavior, and the potential…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-15 Pablo Casani-Galdon , Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo