A wavelet-based method for overcoming the Gibbs phenomenon

  • Authors:
  • Nataniel Greene

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY

  • Venue:
  • MATH'08 Proceedings of the American Conference on Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The Gibbs phenomenon refers to the lack of uniform convergence which occurs in many orthogonal basis approximations to piecewise smooth functions. This lack of uniform convergence manifests itself in spurious oscillations near the points of discontinuity and a low order of convergence away from the discontinuities. Here we describe a numerical procedure for overcoming the Gibbs phenomenon called the inverse wavelet reconstruction method. The method takes the Fourier coefficients of an oscillatory partial sum and uses them to construct the wavelet coefficients of a non-oscillatory wavelet series.