Asymptotic properties of Gabor frame operators as sampling density tends to infinity

We study the asymptotic properties of Gabor frame operators defined by the Riemannian sums of inverse windowed Fourier transforms. When the analysis and the synthesis window functions are the same, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the Riemannian sums to be convergent as the sampling density tends to infinity. Moreover, we show that Gabor frame operators converge to the identity operator in operator norm whenever they are generated with locally Riemann integrable window functions in the Wiener space. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.