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Reproducing formulas for generalized translation invariant systems on locally compact abelian groups
In this paper we connect the well established discrete frame theory of
generalized shift invariant systems to a continuous frame theory. To do so, we
let , , be a countable family of closed, co-compact
subgroups of a second countable locally compact abelian group and study
systems of the form with generators in and with each
being a countable or an uncountable index set. We refer to systems of this form
as generalized translation invariant (GTI) systems. Many of the familiar
transforms, e.g., the wavelet, shearlet and Gabor transform, both their
discrete and continuous variants, are GTI systems. Under a technical
local integrability condition (-LIC) we characterize when GTI systems
constitute tight and dual frames that yield reproducing formulas for .
This generalizes results on generalized shift invariant systems, where each
is assumed to be countable and each is a uniform lattice in
, to the case of uncountably many generators and (not necessarily discrete)
closed, co-compact subgroups. Furthermore, even in the case of uniform lattices
, our characterizations improve known results since the class of GTI
systems satisfying the -LIC is strictly larger than the class of GTI
systems satisfying the previously used local integrability condition. As an
application of our characterization results, we obtain new characterizations of
translation invariant continuous frames and Gabor frames for . In
addition, we will see that the admissibility conditions for the continuous and
discrete wavelet and Gabor transform in are special cases
of the same general characterizing equations.Comment: Minor changes (v2). To appear in Trans. Amer. Math. So
Black hole thermodynamical entropy
As early as 1902, Gibbs pointed out that systems whose partition function
diverges, e.g. gravitation, lie outside the validity of the Boltzmann-Gibbs
(BG) theory. Consistently, since the pioneering Bekenstein-Hawking results,
physically meaningful evidence (e.g., the holographic principle) has
accumulated that the BG entropy of a black hole is
proportional to its area ( being a characteristic linear length), and
not to its volume . Similarly it exists the \emph{area law}, so named
because, for a wide class of strongly quantum-entangled -dimensional
systems, is proportional to if , and to if
, instead of being proportional to (). These results
violate the extensivity of the thermodynamical entropy of a -dimensional
system. This thermodynamical inconsistency disappears if we realize that the
thermodynamical entropy of such nonstandard systems is \emph{not} to be
identified with the BG {\it additive} entropy but with appropriately
generalized {\it nonadditive} entropies. Indeed, the celebrated usefulness of
the BG entropy is founded on hypothesis such as relatively weak probabilistic
correlations (and their connections to ergodicity, which by no means can be
assumed as a general rule of nature). Here we introduce a generalized entropy
which, for the Schwarzschild black hole and the area law, can solve the
thermodynamic puzzle.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in EPJ
Generalized persistence exponents: an exactly soluble model
It was recently realized that the persistence exponent appearing in the
dynamics of nonequilibrium systems is a special member of a continuously
varying family of exponents, describing generalized persistence properties. We
propose and solve a simplified model of coarsening, where time intervals
between spin flips are independent, and distributed according to a L\'evy law.
Both the limit distribution of the mean magnetization and the generalized
persistence exponents are obtained exactly.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures Submitted to PR
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