How exponentially ill-conditioned are contiguous submatrices of the Fourier matrix?
How exponentially ill-conditioned are contiguous submatrices of the Fourier matrix?
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傅立叶矩阵的连续子矩阵的指数病态程度如何?
作者:
A. Barnett
We show that the condition number of any cyclically contiguous $p imes q$ submatrix of the $N imes N$ discrete Fourier transform (DFT) matrix is at least $$ exp left( frac{pi}{2} left[min(p,q)- frac{pq}{N}
ight]
ight)~, $$ up to algebraic prefactors. That is, fixing any shape parameters $(alpha,eta):=(p/N,q/N)in(0,1)^2$, the growth is $e^{
ho N}$ as $N oinfty$ with rate $
ho = frac{pi}{2}[min(alpha,eta)-
alphaeta]$. Such Vandermonde system matrices arise in many applications, such as Fourier continuation, super-resolution, and diffraction imaging. Our proof uses the Kaiser-Bessel transform pair (of which we give a self-contained proof), and estimates on sums over distorted sinc functions, to construct a localized trial vector whose DFT is also localized. We warm up with an elementary proof of the above but with half the rate, via a periodized Gaussian trial vector. Using low-rank approximation of the kernel $e^{ixt}$, we also prove another lower bound $(4/epi alpha)^q$, up to algebraic prefactors, which is stronger than the above for small $alpha, eta$. When combined, the bounds are within a factor of two of the numerically-measured empirical asymptotic rate, uniformly over $(0,1)^2$, and they become sharp in certain regions. However, the results are not asymptotic: they apply to essentially all $N$, $p$, and $q$, and with all constants explicit.