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In a recent breakthrough, Teyssier (Ann Probab 48(5):2323–2343, 2020) introduced a new method for approximating the distance from equilibrium of a random walk on a group. He used it to study the limit profile for the random transpositions card shuffle. His techniques were restricted to conjugacy-invariant random walks on groups; we derive similar approximation lemmas for random walks on homogeneous spaces and for general reversible Markov chains. We illustrate applications of these lemmas to some famous problems: the k-cycle shuffle, sharpening results of Hough (Probab Theory Relat Fields 165(1–2):447–482, 2016) and Berestycki, Schramm and Zeitouni (Ann Probab 39(5):1815–1843, 2011), the Ehrenfest urn diffusion with many urns, sharpening results of Ceccherini-Silberstein, Scarabotti and Tolli (J Math Sci 141(2):1182–1229, 2007), a Gibbs sampler, which is a fundamental tool in statistical physics, with Binomial prior and hypergeometric posterior, sharpening results of Diaconis, Khare and Saloff-Coste (Stat Sci 23(2):151–178, 2008). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Let d  ≥ 1. For any A ∈ Z d × d such that | det A | = 2 , we construct two families of Parseval wavelet frames with two generators. These generators have compact support, any desired number of vanishing moments, and any given degree of regularity. The first family is real valued while the second family is complex valued. To construct these families we use Daubechies low pass filters to obtain refinable functions, and adapt methods employed by Chui and He and Petukhov for dyadic dilations to this more general case. We also construct several families of Parseval wavelet frames with three generators having various symmetry properties. Our constructions are based on the same refinable functions and on techniques developed by Han and Mo and by Dong and Shen for the univariate case with dyadic dilations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asymptotic formulas are obtained for a class of integrals that are Fourier transforms of rapidly oscillating functions. These formulas contain special functions and generalize the well-known method of stationary phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A function f with bounded variation and integrable Hilbert transform of d f is locally absolutely continuous. We give a direct real-valued proof of this result and connect it with integrability problems for the Fourier transform of a function with bounded variation, in particular, with a Hardy-Littlewood theorem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]