Wigner transform and quasicrystals

TL;DR

This paper links quasicrystals to time-frequency analysis by showing that distributions with Wigner transforms supported on discrete sets are quasicrystals, extending the concept through a generalized Wigner transform.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach connecting quasicrystals with time-frequency representations, specifically via the support of the Wigner transform.

Findings

Distributions with Wigner support on discrete sets are quasicrystals.

Extension to matrix-Wigner transforms broadens the applicability.

Provides a new characterization of quasicrystals using time-frequency analysis.

Abstract

Quasicrystals are tempered distributions $\mu$ which satisfy symmetric conditions on $\mu$ and $\widehat \mu$. This suggests that techniques from time-frequency analysis could possibly be useful tools in the study of such structures. In this paper we explore this direction considering quasicrystals type conditions on time-frequency representations instead of separately on the distribution and its Fourier transform. More precisely we prove that a tempered distribution $\mu$ on ${\mathbb R}^d$ whose Wigner transform, $W(\mu)$, is supported on a product of two uniformly discrete sets in ${\mathbb R}^d$ is a quasicrystal. This result is partially extended to a generalization of the Wigner transform, called matrix-Wigner transform which is defined in terms of the Wigner transform and a linear map $T$ on ${\mathbb R}^{2d}$.