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In the present investigation we link noncommutative geometry over noncommutative tori with Gabor analysis, where the first has its roots in operator algebras and the second in time-frequency analysis. We are therefore in the position to invoke modern methods of operator algebras, e.g. topological stable rank of Banach algebras, to display the deeper properties of Gabor frames. Furthermore, we are able to extend results due to Connes and Rieffel on projective modules over noncommutative tori to Banach algebras, which arise in a natural manner in Gabor analysis. The main goal of this investigation is twofold: (i) an interpretation of projective modules over noncommutative tori in terms of Gabor analysis and (ii) to show that the Morita-Rieffel equivalence between noncommutative tori is the natural framework for the duality theory of Gabor frames. More concretely, we interpret generators of projective modules over noncommutative tori as the Gabor atoms of multi-window Gabor frames for modulation spaces. Moreover, we show that this implies the existence of good multi-window Gabor frames for modulation spaces with Gabor atoms in e.g. Feichtinger's algebra or in Schwartz space.

Quantum harmonic analysis on phase space is shown to be linked with localization operators. The convolution between operators and the convolution between a function and an operator provide a conceptual framework for the theory of localization operators which is complemented by an appropriate Fourier transform, the Fourier-Wigner transform. We link the Hausdorff-Young inequality for the Fourier-Wigner transform with Lieb's inequality for ambiguity functions. Noncommutative Tauberian theorems due to Werner allow us to extend results of Bayer and Gröchenig on localization operators. Furthermore we show that the Arveson spectrum and the theory of Banach modules provide the abstract setting of quantum harmonic analysis.1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. 47G30; 35S05; 46E35; 47B10.

We study mixed-state localization operators from the perspective of Werner's operator convolutions which allows us to extend known results from the rank-one case to trace class operators. The idea of localizing a signal to a domain in phase space is approached from various directions such as bounds on the spreading function, probability densities associated to mixed-state localization operators, positive operator valued measures, positive correspondence rules and variants of Tauberian theorems for operator translates. Our results include a rigorous treatment of multiwindow-STFT filters and a characterization of mixed-state localization operators as positive correspondence rules. Furthermore we provide a description of the Cohen class in terms of Werner's convolution of operators and deduce consequences on positive Cohen class distributions, an uncertainty principle, uniqueness and phase retrieval for general elements of Cohen's class.where π(z)ψ(t) = e 2πiωt ψ(t−x). In [55] we showed that this yields a natural class of Banach modules. There are two types of convolutions in this noncommutative setting: (i) The convolution between a function f ∈ L 1 (R 2d ) and a trace class operator S:(ii) the convolution between two trace class operators S and T is defined by1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. 47G30; 35S05; 46E35; 47B10. Key words and phrases. localization operators, Cohen class, uncertainty principle, phase retrieval, positive operator valued measures.F W S(z) = e −πix·ω tr(π(−z)S) for z ∈ R 2d . Note that the Fourier-Wigner transform and the spreading function differ only by a phase factor. The Fourier-Wigner transform has many properties analogous to those of the Fourier transform of functions [55,66]. In the case of rank-one operators these concepts of quantum harmonic analysis turn into wellknown objects from time-frequency analysis. Suppose ϕ 2 ⊗ ϕ 1 is the rank-one operator for ϕ 1 , ϕ 2 ∈ L 2 (R d ). Then we havewhich is a localization operator (or STFT-filter or 46]) and is denoted by A ϕ1,ϕ2f , and f is called the mask of the STFT-filter. Similarly, the convolution of two rank-one operators becomeswhereξ(x) = ξ(−x), which reduces for η = ψ and ψ = φ to the spectrogram [42]. The Fourier-Wigner transform of a rank-one operator is the ambiguity function. There is also a Hausdorff-Young inequality associated to the Fourier-Wigner transform [55,66], that in the rank-one case is the non-sharp Lieb's inequality for ambiguity functions [51]. Let us return to the objectives of this paper. Since localization operators are convolutions of a function and a rank-one operator, a natural extension of localization operators are operators of the form f ⋆ S for a trace-class operator S. The results of this paper indicate that these operators describe the time-frequency localization in various ways. For example we are interested in the amount of "spreading" in time and frequency that an operator performs on a function which we describe in form of bounds on the concentration of the spreading function, or equivalently ...