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A Tight Converse to the Spectral Resolution Limit via Convex Programming

Information Theory 2021-10-18 v2 Functional Analysis math.IT

Abstract

It is now well understood that convex programming can be used to estimate the frequency components of a spectrally sparse signal from 2m+12m+1 uniform temporal measurements. It is conjectured that a phase transition on the success of the total-variation regularization occurs when the distance between the spectral components of the signal to estimate crosses 1/m1/m. We prove the necessity part of this conjecture by demonstrating that this regularization can fail whenever the spectral distance of the signal of interest is asymptotically equal to 1/m1/m.

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@article{arxiv.1801.04761,
  title  = {A Tight Converse to the Spectral Resolution Limit via Convex Programming},
  author = {Maxime Ferreira Da Costa and Wei Dai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.04761},
  year   = {2021}
}
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