The Wigner function for general Lie groups and the wavelet transform

Annales Henri Poincare

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 685-714

  Ali, S Twareque ^a   Atakishiyev, Natig M ^c   Chumakov, Sergey M ^b   Wolf, Kurt Bernardo ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

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EID: 0034356779     PISSN: 14240637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00001012     Document Type: Article

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