Hermitian wavelets are a family of continuous wavelets, used in the continuous wavelet transform. The nth{\displaystyle n^{\textrm {th}}} Hermitian wavelet is defined as the nth{\displaystyle n^{\textrm {th}}} derivative of a Gaussian distribution:
Ψn(t)=(2n)−n2cnHn(tn)e−12nt2{\displaystyle \Psi _{n}(t)=(2n)^{-{\frac {n}{2}}}c_{n}H_{n}\left({\frac {t}{\sqrt {n}}}\right)e^{-{\frac {1}{2n}}t^{2}}}