The statistical restricted isometry property and the Wigner semicircle distribution of incoherent dictionaries

S Gurevich, R Hadani - arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2602, 2008 - arxiv.org
S Gurevich, R Hadani
arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2602, 2008arxiv.org
In this article we present a statistical version of the Candes-Tao restricted isometry property
(SRIP for short) which holds in general for any incoherent dictionary which is a disjoint union
of orthonormal bases. In addition, we show that, under appropriate normalization, the
eigenvalues of the associated Gram matrix fluctuate around 1 according to the Wigner
semicircle distribution. The result is then applied to various dictionaries that arise naturally in
the setting of finite harmonic analysis, giving, in particular, a better understanding on a …
In this article we present a statistical version of the Candes-Tao restricted isometry property (SRIP for short) which holds in general for any incoherent dictionary which is a disjoint union of orthonormal bases. In addition, we show that, under appropriate normalization, the eigenvalues of the associated Gram matrix fluctuate around 1 according to the Wigner semicircle distribution. The result is then applied to various dictionaries that arise naturally in the setting of finite harmonic analysis, giving, in particular, a better understanding on a remark of Applebaum-Howard-Searle-Calderbank concerning RIP for the Heisenberg dictionary of chirp like functions.
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