$$\tau $$-quantization and $$\tau $$-Cohen classes distributions of Feichtinger operators

Abstract We investigate the $$\tau $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>τ</mml:mi> </mml:math> -quantizations and Cohen’s class distributions of a suitable class of trace-class operators, called Feichtinger’s operators, and show that it is a convenient substitute for the class of Schwartz operators. Many well-known concepts and results for functions in time-frequency analysis have an operator-analog in our setting, e.g. that Cohen’s classes are convolutions of Wigner functions with distributions or characterization of the class of Schwartz operators as an intersection of weighted variants of the class of Feichtinger operators.