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Schwartz-Class Gabor Windows and the Balian-Low Classification

Andrei Caragea·Götz Pfander
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Lattice Gabor frames consist of a window function and its time--frequency shifts by the elements of a lattice. This paper addresses the decay and smoothness achievable by a Gabor-frame window for a prescribed time--frequency/phase-space lattice, and gives a classification apart from the borderline cases specified below. Central to the paper is the introduction of an integer lattice parameter, the symplectic index gap. It governs the availability of regular, well-localized windows for a given lattice. For example, we show that a Schwartz-class Gabor-frame window exists exactly when this gap is at least the signal-space dimension, with the extended gap convention for symplectically irrational lattices. We formulate symplectic index gap Balian--Low theorems that place the classical and amalgam Balian--Low theorems in a common framework using the scale of modulation spaces. For symplectically rational lattices---which include those spanned by vectors with rational entries and which are the ones most relevant in applications---the necessary conditions for modulation-space regularity are also sufficient, except at the remaining lower-gap infinity endpoints. The companion paper "Tilings, Packings, and Smooth and Compactly Supported Gabor Windows" proves the associated geometric Tiling--$\varepsilon$--Packing theorem and constructs smooth, compactly supported Gabor windows.

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Andrei Caragea, Götz Pfander. 2026-09-05. Schwartz-Class Gabor Windows and the Balian-Low Classification. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06255

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