On biunimodular vectors for unitary matrices

A biunimodular vector of a unitary matrix $A \in U(n)$ is a vector v \in \mathbb{T}^n\subset\bc^n such that $Av \in \mathbb{T}^n$ as well. Over the last 30 years, the sets of biunimodular vectors for Fourier matrices have been the object of extensive research in various areas of mathematics and applied sciences. Here, we broaden this basic harmonic analysis perspective and extend the search for biunimodular vectors to arbitrary unitary matrices. This search can be motivated in various ways. The main motivation is provided by the fact, that the existence of biunimodular vectors for an arbitrary unitary matrix allows for a natural understanding of the structure of all unitary matrices

Homogeneous Besov spaces on stratified Lie groups and their wavelet characterization

We establish wavelet characterizations of homogeneous Besov spaces on stratified Lie groups, both in terms of continuous and discrete wavelet systems. We first introduce a notion of homogeneous Besov space $\dot{B}_{p,q}^s$ in terms of a Littlewood-Paley-type decomposition, in analogy to the well-known characterization of the Euclidean case. Such decompositions can be defined via the spectral measure of a suitably chosen sub-Laplacian. We prove that the scale of Besov spaces is independent of the precise choice of Littlewood-Paley decomposition. In particular, different sub-Laplacians yield the same Besov spaces. We then turn to wavelet characterizations, first via continuous wavelet transforms (which can be viewed as continuous-scale Littlewood-Paley decompositions), then via discretely indexed systems. We prove the existence of wavelet frames and associated atomic decomposition formulas for all homogeneous Besov spaces ${\dot B}_{p,q}^{s}$, with $1 \le p,q < \infty$ and $s \in \mathbb{R}$.Comment: 39 pages. This paper is to appear in Journal of Function Spaces and Applications. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1008.451

Wavelet Coorbit Spaces viewed as Decomposition Spaces

In this paper we show that the Fourier transform induces an isomorphism between the coorbit spaces defined by Feichtinger and Gr\"ochenig of the mixed, weighted Lebesgue spaces $L_{v}^{p,q}$ with respect to the quasi-regular representation of a semi-direct product $\mathbb{R}^{d}\rtimes H$ with suitably chosen dilation group $H$, and certain decomposition spaces $\mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{Q},L^{p},\ell_{u}^{q}\right)$ (essentially as introduced by Feichtinger and Gr\"obner), where the localized ,,parts`` of a function are measured in the $\mathcal{F}L^{p}$-norm. This equivalence is useful in several ways: It provides access to a Fourier-analytic understanding of wavelet coorbit spaces, and it allows to discuss coorbit spaces associated to different dilation groups in a common framework. As an illustration of these points, we include a short discussion of dilation invariance properties of coorbit spaces associated to different types of dilation groups