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 function of the conventional Mexican hat wavelet:
Temporally, this wavelet can be expressed in terms of the error function, as:
This wavelet has asymptotic temporal decay in, dominated by the discontinuity of the second derivative of at .
This wavelet was proposed in 2002 by Addison et al. for applications requiring high temporal precision time-frequency analysis.
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