The Gaussian Wave Packet Transform via Quadrature Rules
We study variants of the Gaussian wave packet transform and investigate their connection to the FBI transform. Based on the Fourier inversion formula and a partition of unity, which is formed by a collection of Gaussian basis functions, a new representation of square integrable functions is presented. Including a rigorous error analysis, the variants of the wave packet transform are then derived by a discretization of the Fourier integral via different quadrature rules. Based on Gauss-Hermite quadrature, we introduce a new representation of Gaussian wave packets in which the number of basis functions is significantly reduced. Numerical experiments in 1D illustrate the theoretical results.
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