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Improved bounds for the eigenvalues of prolate spheroidal wave functions and discrete prolate spheroidal sequences

Santhosh Karnik·Justin Romberg·Mark A. Davenport
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The discrete prolate spheroidal sequences (DPSSs) are a set of orthonormal sequences in $\ell_2(\mathbb{Z})$ which are strictly bandlimited to a frequency band $[-W,W]$ and maximally concentrated in a time interval $\{0,\ldots,N-1\}$. The timelimited DPSSs (sometimes referred to as the Slepian basis) are an orthonormal set of vectors in $\mathbb{C}^N$ whose discrete time Fourier transform (DTFT) is maximally concentrated in a frequency band $[-W,W]$. Due to these properties, DPSSs have a wide variety of signal processing applications. The DPSSs are the eigensequences of a timelimit-then-bandlimit operator and the Slepian basis vectors are the eigenvectors of the so-called prolate matrix. The eigenvalues in both cases are the same, and they exhibit a particular clustering behavior -- slightly fewer than $2NW$ eigenvalues are very close to $1$, slightly fewer than $N-2NW$ eigenvalues are very close to $0$, and very few eigenvalues are not near $1$ or $0$. This eigenvalue behavior is critical in many of the applications in which DPSSs are used. There are many asymptotic characterizations of the number of eigenvalues not near $0$ or $1$. In contrast, there are very few non-asymptotic results, and these don't fully characterize the clustering behavior of the DPSS eigenvalues. In this work, we establish two novel non-asymptotic bounds on the number of DPSS eigenvalues between $ε$ and $1-ε$. Also, we obtain bounds detailing how close the first $\approx 2NW$ eigenvalues are to $1$ and how close the last $\approx N-2NW$ eigenvalues are to $0$. Furthermore, we extend these results to the eigenvalues of the prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs), which are the continuous-time version of the DPSSs. Finally, we present numerical experiments demonstrating the quality of our non-asymptotic bounds on the number of DPSS eigenvalues between $ε$ and $1-ε$.

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Santhosh Karnik, Justin Romberg, Mark A. Davenport. 2020-09-28. Improved bounds for the eigenvalues of prolate spheroidal wave functions and discrete prolate spheroidal sequences. https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00427

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