Abstract
The harmonic oscillator is a fundamental prototype for all types of resonances, and hence plays a key role in the study of physical systems governed by differential equations. The time-frequency representation of its Green’s function, obtained through the Wigner distribution, reveals the time-varying frequency structure of resonances. Unfortunately, the Wigner distribution of the Green’s function is affected by strong interference terms with a highly oscillatory structure. We characterize these interference terms by evaluating the ambiguity function of the Green’s function. The obtained result shows that, in the ambiguity domain, the interference terms are localized and separate from the resonance component, and hence they can be reduced by a proper filtering.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
G. Birkhoff, G.-C. Rota, Ordinary Differential Equations (Wiley, London, 1989)
C.J. Savant, Fundamentals of the Laplace Transformation (McGraw-Hill: New York, 1962)
L. Cohen, Time-Frequency Analysis (Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 1995)
B. Boashash (ed.), Time-Frequency Signal Analysis and Processing: A Comprehensive Reference (Academic Press, London, 2015)
T.A.C.M. Claasen, W.F.G. Mecklenbrauker, The Wigner distribution – a tool for time-frequency signal analysis. Part I: continuous time signals. Philips J. Res. 35(3), 217–250 (1980)
E.P. Wigner, On the quantum correction for thermodynamic equilibrium. Phys. Rev. 40, 749–759 (1932)
L. Galleani, A time-frequency relationship between the Langevin equation and the harmonic oscillator, in Pseudo-Differential Operators: Groups, Geometry and Applications, ed. by M.W. Wong, H. Zhu (Birkhäuser, Basel, 2007), pp. 119–131
A.H. Zemanian, Distribution Theory and Transform Analysis (Dover, New York, 1987)
L. Cohen, The history of noise. IEEE Signal Proc. Mag. 22(6), 20–45 (2005)
F. Hlawatsch, Interference terms in the Wigner distribution. Digital Signal Process. 84, 363–367 (1984)
H.I. Choi, W.J. Williams, Improved time-frequency representation of multicomponent signals using exponential kernels. IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process. 37(6), 862–871 (1989)
J. Jeong, W.J. Williams, Kernel design for reduced interference distributions. IEEE Trans. Signal Process. 40(2), 402–412 (1992)
L. Galleani, Time-frequency representation of MIMO dynamical systems. IEEE Trans. Signal Process. 61(17), 4309–4317 (2013)
L. Galleani, Response of dynamical systems to nonstationary inputs. IEEE Trans. Signal Process. 60(11), 5775–5786 (2012)
L. Galleani, The transient spectrum of a random system. IEEE Trans. Signal Process. 58(10), 5106–5117 (2010)
L. Galleani, L. Cohen, Direct time-frequency characterization of linear systems governed by differential equations. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 11(9), 721–724, (2004)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Appendix
Appendix
By using the property (10), the ambiguity function of the Green’s function for the Langevin equation can be obtained from
Substituting \(W_{h_{L}}(t,\omega )\) from (Fig. 1) gives
which is (42).
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Galleani, L. (2019). The Time-Frequency Interference Terms of the Green’s Function for the Harmonic Oscillator. In: Molahajloo, S., Wong, M. (eds) Analysis of Pseudo-Differential Operators. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05168-6_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05168-6_9
Published:
Publisher Name: Birkhäuser, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-05167-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-05168-6
eBook Packages: Mathematics and StatisticsMathematics and Statistics (R0)