Complex mexican hat wavelet

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The complex Mexican hat wavelet is a low-oscillation, complex-valued, wavelet for the continuous wavelet transform. This wavelet is formulated in terms of its Fourier transform as the Hilbert analytic function of the conventional Mexican hat wavelet:

$\hat{\Psi}(\omega)=\begin{cases} 2\sqrt{\frac{2}{3}}\pi^{-\frac{1}{4}}\omega^{2}e^{-\frac{1}{2}\omega^{2}} & \omega\geq0 \\ 0 & \omega\leq0 \end{cases}$

Temporally, this wavelet can be expressed in terms of the error function, as:

$\Psi(t)=\frac{2}{\sqrt{3}}\pi^{-\frac{1}{4}}\left(\sqrt{\pi}(1-t^{2})e^{-\frac{1}{2}t^{2}}-\left(\sqrt{2}it+\sqrt{\pi}\textrm{erf}\left[\frac{i}{\sqrt{2}}t\right]\left(1-t^{2}\right)e^{-\frac{1}{2}t^{2}}\right)\right)$

This wavelet has $O ( | t | - 3)$ asymptotic temporal decay in $| Ψ(t) |$ , dominated by the discontinuity of the second derivative of $\hat{\Psi}(\omega)$ at $ω = 0$ .