Complex Mexican hat wavelet

In applied mathematics, 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 signal of the conventional Mexican hat wavelet:

[math]\displaystyle{ \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\leq 0. \end{cases} }[/math]

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

[math]\displaystyle{ \Psi(t) = \frac{2}{\sqrt{3}}\pi^{-\frac{1}{4}}\left(\sqrt{\pi}\left(1 - t^2\right)e^{-\frac{1}{2}t^2} - \left(\sqrt{2}it + \sqrt{\pi}\operatorname{erf}\left[\frac{i}{\sqrt{2}}t\right]\left(1 - t^2\right)e^{-\frac{1}{2}t^2}\right)\right). }[/math]

This wavelet has [math]\displaystyle{ O\left(|t|^{-3}\right) }[/math] asymptotic temporal decay in [math]\displaystyle{ |\Psi(t)| }[/math], dominated by the discontinuity of the second derivative of [math]\displaystyle{ \hat{\Psi}(\omega) }[/math] at [math]\displaystyle{ \omega = 0 }[/math].

This wavelet was proposed in 2002 by Addison et al. for applications requiring high temporal precision time-frequency analysis.