Decimation and harmonic inversion of periodic orbit signals

We present and compare three generically applicable signal processing metho ds for periodic orbit quantization via harmonic inversion of semiclassical recurrence functions. In a first step of each method, a band-limited decima ted periodic orbit signal is obtained by analytical frequency windowing of the periodic orbit sum. In a second step, the frequencies and amplitudes of the decimated signal are determined by either decimated linear predictor, decimated Pade approximant, or decimated signal diagonalization. These tech niques, which would have been numerically unstable without the windowing, p rovide numerically more accurate semiclassical spectra than does the filter diagonalization method.