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The illustrated wavelet transform handbook:

introductory theory and applications in science,
engineering, medicine and finance, 2nd edition, by
P. S. Addison

Héctor Manuel Moya-Cessa

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 Contemporary Physics, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2017.1403483
BOOK REVIEW
The illustrated wavelet transform handbook:
introductory theory and applications in science,
engineering, medicine and finance, 2nd edition,
by P. S. Addison, Boca Raton and London, CRC
Press, 2016, 446 pp., £63.99 (hardback), ISBN
9781482251326. Scope: handbook. Level: researcher,
scientist, engineers.
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This book introduces the reader to the theory of wavelet
transforms. Readers of different subjects, but mainly, engi-
neering, medicine and finance may find several applications
of importance in their disciplines. It covers a number of top-
ics related to very diverse fields that range from applications
to blood pressure to fractals.
Although I believe that it covers much of what is needed
nowadays in this field of research, I also believe that there are
some parts that are lacking in wavelet theory in general, and
therefore in this book, namely, the connection between wave-
let transforms and quasiprobability distribution functions
commonly used in quantum mechanics. To exemplify this
issue, I would mention the Husimi function, i.e. a function
that is transformed via a coherent state, this is, a displacement
on a mother function given by a Gaussian. Therefore the
idea of the displacement is already in such quasiprobability
function. If one further thinks about dilations, in quantum
mechanics one is forced to think about an Squeeze operator,
which produces dilations in wavefunctions. Some relevant
references may be found in [1,2].
Nevertheless, I think that this book may be considered as
state of the art in the theory of wavelet transforms, as both
theories, although parallel, have not been connected yet.
References
  [1] Torres-Vega G, Frederick JH. A quantum-mechanical
representation in phase space. J Chem Phys. 1993;98:3103–3120.
  [2] Hu L-Y, Fan H-Y, Lu H-L. Explicit state vector for Torres-Vega–
Frederick phase space representation and its statistical behavior.
J Chem Phys. 2008;128:054101.
Héctor Manuel Moya-Cessa
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica,
Puebla, Mexico
hmmc@inaoep.mx
© 2017 Héctor Manuel Moya-Cessa
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