represents the Mexican hat wavelet of width 1.
represents the Mexican hat wavelet of width σ.


MexicanHatWavelet
represents the Mexican hat wavelet of width 1.
represents the Mexican hat wavelet of width σ.
Details

- MexicanHatWavelet defines a family of non-orthogonal wavelets.
- The wavelet function (
) is given by
.
- MexicanHatWavelet can be used with such functions as ContinuousWaveletTransform and WaveletPsi, etc.
Examples
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MexicanHatWavelet is used to perform a ContinuousWaveletTransform:
Use WaveletScalogram to get a time scale representation of wavelet coefficients:
Use InverseWaveletTransform to reconstruct the signal:
Properties & Relations (4)
DGaussianWavelet[2] is the same as MexicanHatWavelet:
Wavelet function integrates to zero; :
Wavelet function and its Fourier transform:
MexicanHatWavelet does not have a scaling function:
See Also
Related Guides
History
Text
Wolfram Research (2010), MexicanHatWavelet, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MexicanHatWavelet.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2010. "MexicanHatWavelet." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MexicanHatWavelet.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2010). MexicanHatWavelet. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MexicanHatWavelet.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_mexicanhatwavelet, author="Wolfram Research", title="{MexicanHatWavelet}", year="2010", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MexicanHatWavelet.html}", note=[Accessed: 05-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_mexicanhatwavelet, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={MexicanHatWavelet}, year={2010}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MexicanHatWavelet.html}, note=[Accessed: 05-August-2025]}