Multiparameter harmonic analysis on the Heisenberg group

谐波分析是一个非常活跃的数学领域，它最近在语音、图像、心电图以及更一般的数字数据集等信号的分析和处理中有许多应用。它提供了在不同尺度上解开信号和提取特征的工具，以及用于存储和计算的压缩信息的方法。一般来说，谐波分析涉及将信息分解成更简单的片段。这可以很好地用音乐的模型来说明。当一个中音C的音叉被敲击时，它会产生一个接近纯音的音调，也就是说，气压的正弦波变化。另一方面，当乐器如小提琴演奏中音C时，它产生一个纯音的总和：在相同的基础或基本频率上叠加不同强度的正弦波，其频率是这个频率的倍数。这些被称为高次谐波。正是这些高次谐波的存在决定了乐器的特征或音色。虽然两种乐器演奏的是完全相同的音符，但两种乐器的声音略有不同。人耳在识别由这些不同振幅的高次谐波的存在引起的声音特征的这种微妙差异时，正在进行谐波分析。我的工作主要涉及乘子理论，这是一个非常重要的工具，在谐波分析。它可以用音乐模型来描述。如果我们考虑一些声音或信号，它已经以这种方式分解成不同幅度的组成频率，并假设我们对阻尼某些频率感兴趣，也许放大其他频率：例如，当调整立体声设备上的均衡器时，我们这样做。乘数理论是研究这对整个信号的影响。乘数理论在数学的许多领域都有重要的应用，如偏微分方程、解析数论、微分几何，甚至在Navier Stokes问题中也发挥了作用，该问题的解决方案现在价值100万美元。

Harmonic analysis is a highly active field of mathematics, which has had many recent applications to the analysis and manipulation of signals such as speech, images, electrocardiograms, as well as more general digital data sets. It provides tools for unraveling signals and extracting features at different scales, as well as methods of compressing information which are useful for storage and computation. Harmonic analysis is concerned, generally speaking, with breaking information up into simpler pieces. This can be nicely illustrated with the model of music. When a tuning fork for middle C is struck, it produces nearly a pure tone; that is, a sine wave variation in the air pressure. On the other hand, when a musical instrument such as a violin plays middle C, it produces a sum of pure tones: superimposed at various intensities on the same ground or fundamental frequency, are sine waves with frequencies which are multiples of this. These are called higher harmonics. It is the presence of these higher harmonics which is responsible for the character, or timbre, of an instrument. Although exactly the same note is being played in the two cases, the two instruments sound slightly different. The human ear, in recognizing this subtle difference in the character of the sound caused by the presence of these higher harmonics at various amplitudes, is doing harmonic analysis. My work largely concerns multiplier theory, which is a very important tool in harmonic analysis. It can be described very simply in the musical model. If we consider some sound, or signal, which has been decomposed in this way into constituent frequencies at various amplitudes, and suppose we are interested in damping certain of those frequencies, and perhaps magnifying others: we do this, for example, when adjusting the equalizer on a stereo set. Multiplier theory is the study of what effect this would have on the signal as a whole. Multiplier theory has important applications in many areas of mathematics, such as partial differential equations, analytic number theory, differential geometry, and even plays a role in the Navier Stokes problem, the solution of which is now worth US\$1m.