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Numerical Stability of DFT Computation for Signals with Structured Support

Signal Processing 2024-12-03 v1

Abstract

We consider the problem of building numerically stable algorithms for computing Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of NN- length signals with known frequency support of size kk. A typical algorithm, in this case, would involve solving (possibly poorly conditioned) system of equations, causing numerical instability. When NN is a power of 2, and the frequency support is a random subset of ZN\mathbb{Z}_N, we provide an algorithm that has (a possibly optimal) O(klogk)O(k \log k) complexity to compute the DFT while solving system of equations that are O(1)O(1) in size.

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@article{arxiv.2401.16044,
  title  = {Numerical Stability of DFT Computation for Signals with Structured Support},
  author = {Charantej Reddy Pochimireddy and Aditya Siripuram and Brad Osgood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.16044},
  year   = {2024}
}

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16 page, 12 figures

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