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In this paper, we focus on the approximation of smooth functions $f: [-\pi, \pi] \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$, up to an unresolvable global phase ambiguity, from a finite set of Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) magnitude (i.e., spectrogram)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Mark Iwen , Michael Perlmutter , Nada Sissouno , Aditya Viswanathan

The problem of phase retrieval, i.e., the problem of recovering a function from the magnitudes of its Fourier transform, naturally arises in various fields of physics, such as astronomy, radar, speech recognition, quantum mechanics and,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Philipp Grohs , Sarah Koppensteiner , Martin Rathmair

We discover a new instability mechanism for short-time Fourier transform phase retrieval which yields that for any reasonable window function $\phi$ in any dimension $d$, the local stability constant $c(f)$ defined via \begin{equation*}…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Rima Alaifari , Ben Pineau , Mitchell A. Taylor , Matthias Wellershoff

Gabor phase retrieval stands for recovering a square integrable function up to a global phase from absolute values of its Gabor transform. In this paper, we study Gabor phase retrieval from discrete samples. We consider three types of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Ting Chen , Hanwen Lu , Wenchang Sun

A Gabor system in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$, generated by a window $g\in L^2(\mathbb{R})$ and associated with a sequence of times and frequencies $\Gamma\subset\mathbb{R}^2$, is a set formed by translations in time and modulations of $g$. In this…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Y. Omari

Phase retrieval seeks to reconstruct a signal from phaseless intensity measurements and, in applications where measurements contain errors, demands stable reconstruction. We study local stability of phase retrieval in reproducing kernel…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Hartmut Führ , Max Getter

A frame $(x_j)_{j\in J}$ for a Hilbert space $H$ is said to do phase retrieval if for all distinct vectors $x,y\in H$ the magnitude of the frame coefficients $(|\langle x, x_j\rangle|)_{j\in J}$ and $(|\langle y, x_j\rangle|)_{j\in J}$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Wedad Alharbi , Salah Alshabhi , Daniel Freeman , Dorsa Ghoreishi

This paper studies the problem of accurately recovering a structured signal from a small number of corrupted sub-Gaussian measurements. We consider three different procedures to reconstruct signal and corruption when different kinds of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Jinchi Chen , Yulong Liu

We prove stability results for a class of Gabor frames in $ L^2(\R)$. We consider window functions in the Sobolev spaces $H^1_0(\R)$ and B-splines of order $p\ge 1$. Our results can be used to describe the effect of the timing jitters in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Laura De Carli , Pierluigi Vellucci

The theory of $L^2$-spectral gaps for reversible Markov chains has been studied by many authors. In this paper we consider positive recurrent general state space Markov chains with stationary transition probabilities. Replacing the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-08-07 Achim Wuebker , Zakhar Kabluchko

Phase retrieval refers to the problem of recovering a signal $\mathbf{x}_{\star}\in\mathbb{C}^n$ from its phaseless measurements $y_i=|\mathbf{a}_i^{\mathrm{H}}\mathbf{x}_{\star}|$, where $\{\mathbf{a}_i\}_{i=1}^m$ are the measurement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Junjie Ma , Rishabh Dudeja , Ji Xu , Arian Maleki , Xiaodong Wang

We study Sobolev $H^s(\mathbb{R}^n)$, $s \in \mathbb{R}$, stability of the Fourier phase problem to recover $f$ from the knowledge of $|\hat{f}|$ with an additional Bessel potential $H^{t,p}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ a priori estimate when $t \in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Jesse Railo

A frame $(x_j)_{j\in J}$ for a Hilbert space $H$ is said to do phase retrieval if for all distinct vectors $x,y\in H$ the magnitude of the frame coefficients $(|\langle x, x_j\rangle|)_{j\in J}$ and $(|\langle y, x_j\rangle|)_{j\in J}$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Wedad Alharbi , Daniel Freeman , Dorsa Ghoreishi , Claire Lois , Shanea Sebastian

We prove that the short-time Fourier transform with Gaussian window performs $L^2$-local stable phase retrieval at the constant function. The proof involved significant interplay between mathematicians and LLMs. An autoformalization in Lean…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Susanna Bertolini , Jaume de Dios Pont , Ben Pineau , Mitchell A. Taylor , João P. G. Ramos

In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In this paper, we provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Boris Alexeev , Afonso S. Bandeira , Matthew Fickus , Dustin G. Mixon

Recovering a low-complexity signal from its noisy observations by regularization methods is a cornerstone of inverse problems and compressed sensing. Stable recovery ensures that the original signal can be approximated linearly by optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Tran T. A. Nghia , Huy N. Pham , Nghia V. Vo

The generalized phase retrieval problem over compact groups aims to recover a set of matrices -- representing an unknown signal -- from their associated Gram matrices. This framework generalizes the classical phase retrieval problem, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Tal Amir , Tamir Bendory , Nadav Dym , Dan Edidin

We present a novel probabilistic framework for the recovery of discrete signals with missing data, extending classical Fourier-based methods. While prior results, such as those of Donoho and Stark; see also Logan's method, guarantee exact…

Short-time Fourier transform (STFT) phase retrieval refers to the reconstruction of a function $f$ from its spectrogram, i.e., the magnitudes of its short-time Fourier transform $V_gf$ with window function $g$. While it is known that for…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Philipp Grohs , Lukas Liehr , Martin Rathmair

Examples are constructed of infinite-dimensional subspaces $V\subset L^2(\mu)$ with the property that for any $f,g\in V$, if $|f|$ is approximately equal to $|g|$ with respect to the $L^2$ norm, then there exists a unimodular scalar $z$…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Michael Christ , Ben Pineau , Mitchell A. Taylor