This note reviews complex and real techniques in harmonic analysis. We
describe a common source of both approaches rooted in the covariant transform
generated by the affine group.
Keywords: wavelet, coherent state, covariant transform, reconstruction
formula, the affine group, ax+b-group, square integrable representations,
admissible vectors, Hardy space, fiducial operator, approximation of the
identity, maximal functions, atom, nucleus, atomic decomposition, Cauchy
integral, Poisson integral, Hardy--Littlewood maximal functions, grand maximal
function, vertical maximal functions, non-tangential maximal functions,
intertwining operator, Cauchy-Riemann operator, Laplace operator, singular
integral operator, SIO, boundary behaviour, Carleson measure.Comment: 31 pages, AMS-LaTeX, no figures; v2: a major revision, sections on
representations of the ax+b group and transported norms are added; v3: major
revision: an outline section on complex and real variables techniques are
added, numerous smaller improvements; v4: minor correction
