Abstract
The linear canonical transform (LCT) has attained respectable status within a short span and is being broadly employed across several disciplines of science and engineering including signal processing, optical and radar systems, electrical and communication systems, quantum physics etc, mainly due to the extra degrees of freedom and simple geometrical manifestation. In this article, we introduce a novel multiresolution analysis (LCT-NUMRA) on the spectrum Omega = {0, r/N} + 2Z, where N >= 1 is an integer and r is an odd integer with 1 <= r <= 2N-1, such that r and N are relatively prime, by intertwining the ideas of nonuniform MRA and linear canonical transforms. We first develop nonuniform multiresolution analysis associated with the LCT and then drive an algorithm to construct an LCT-NUMRA starting from a linear canonical low-pass filter Lambda(M)(0)(omega) with suitable conditions. Nevertheless, to extend the scope of the present study, we construct the associated wavelet packets for such an MRA and investigate their properties by means of the linear canonical transforms.