On general frame decompositions

Abstract

We provide a characterization and construction of general frame decompositions. We show that generating all duals for a given frame amounts to finding left inverses of an one-to-one mapping. A general parametric and algebraic formula for all duals is derived. An application of the theory to Weyl-Heisenberg (WH) frames is discussed. Besides the (usual) dual frame that preserves the translation and modulation structure, we construct a class of duals that attain such a structure. We also show constructively that there are duals to WH frames which are not the translation and modulation of a single function.