Totally Positive Functions and Gabor Frames over Rational Lattices

Abstract: We show that for an arbitrary totally positive function $g\in L^1(\mathbb{R} )$ and $\alpha \beta$ rational, the Gabor family ${e^{2\pi i \beta l t} g(t-\alpha k): k,l \in \mathbb{Z} }$ is a frame for $L^2(\mathbb{R})$, if and only if $\alpha \beta <1$.