Weighted irregular Gabor tight frames and dual systems using windows in the Schwartz class

We give a characterization for the weighted irregular Gabor tight frames or dual systems in L2(Rn) in terms of the distributional symplectic Fourier transform of a positive Borel measure on R2n naturally associated with the system and the short-time Fourier transform of the windows in the case where the window (or at least one of the windows in the case of dual systems) belongs to S(Rn). This result implies that, for certain classes of windows such as generalized Gaussians or “extreme-value” windows, the only weighted irregular Gabor tight frames (or even dual systems with both windows in the same class) that can be constructed with these windows are the trivial ones, corresponding to the measure μ = 1 on R2n. Furthermore, we show that, if a such Gabor system admits a dual which is of Gabor type, then the Beurling density of the associated measure exists and is equal to one. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved