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- From: jcbhrb@nic.cerf.net (Jacob Hirbawi)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Walsh Functions
- Message-ID: <2518@news.cerf.net>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 22:28:21 GMT
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- Inc sci.math <Bsxv48.Ko7.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Chung Kang Tsen <tsen+@EDRC.CMU.EDU> writes:
-
- > Can someone give me a brief description of what Walsh Functions are,
- > some of it's applications and also good references to the subject?
- >
- > I am studying applications of Walsh functions in Genetic Algorithms, but
- > I want to know if there are other areas that use (and how they use)
- > it, so I can have a better view of the overall picture.
-
- Walsh functions are nicely described in "Transmission of Information by
- Orthogonal Functions" by Henning F. Harmouth (QA 404.5.H36, 1969).
- Especially interesting is the analogy between these functions and
- the more familiar harmonic functions and between "frequency" and "sequency".
-
- Along these lines you may think of the finite Walsh functions and transforms
- as being related to the finite abelian group C(2) x ... x C(2) (n times) of
- order 2^n the same way the finite Fourier coefficients and transform are
- related to the group C(2^n) -- in both cases the coefficients are the group
- characters and the transform is character decomposition.
-
- As far as applications, there was someone working here who had an almost
- unhealthy fascination with these things -- he was working on non-sinusoidal
- radar and went to great lengths to explain what you can do with them. Too bad
- he left the company, otherwise I would have asked him to give me the details
- one more time!
-
- Jacob Hirbawi
- JcbHrb@CERF.net
-