Resolution of the wavefront set using continuous shearlets
- 24 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Mathematical Society (AMS) in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
- Vol. 361 (5), 2719-2754
- https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9947-08-04700-4
Abstract
It is known that the Continuous Wavelet Transform of a distributiondecays rapidly near the points whereis smooth, while it decays slowly near the irregular points. This property allows the identification of the singular support of. However, the Continuous Wavelet Transform is unable to describe the geometry of the set of singularities ofand, in particular, identify the wavefront set of a distribution. In this paper, we employ the same framework of affine systems which is at the core of the construction of the wavelet transform to introduce the Continuous Shearlet Transform. This is defined by, where the analyzing elementsare dilated and translated copies of a single generating function. The dilation matrices form a two-parameter matrix group consisting of products of parabolic scaling and shear matrices. We show that the elementsform a system of smooth functions at continuous scales, locations, and oriented along lines of slopein the frequency domain. We then prove that the Continuous Shearlet Transform does exactly resolve the wavefront set of a distribution.
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