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The Fourier transform is typically seen as closely related to the additive group of real numbers, its characters and its Haar measure. In this paper, we propose an alternative viewpoint; the Fourier transform can be uniquely characterized by an intertwining relation with dilations and by having a Gaussian as an eigenfunction. This broadens the perspective to an entire family of Fourier-like transforms that are uniquely identified by the same dilation-related property and by having Gaussian-like functions as eigenfunctions. We show that these transforms share many properties with the Fourier transform, particularly unitarity, periodicity and eigenvalues. We also establish short-time analogues of these transforms and show a reconstruction property and an orthogonality relation for the short-time transforms.
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The authors would like to thank the referees for insightful comments that helped improve this paper. All authors gratefully acknowledge partial support of this research by grants from Total E&P USA and Petroleum Geo-Services. B.G.B. was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-1412524. C.L.W. and D.J.K. acknowledge partial support of this research under Grant E-0608 from the Robert A. Welch Foundation.
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Williams, C.L., Bodmann, B.G. & Kouri, D.J. Fourier and Beyond: Invariance Properties of a Family of Integral Transforms. J Fourier Anal Appl 23, 660–678 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00041-016-9482-x
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