understanding bases and frames for Gabor transform

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For the 2D discrete Gabor transform, why is it that we cannot use a set of orthonormal basis for its representation, instead we have to use frames for representing it?

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I think this is effectively because of the Balian-Low theorem. If we were to force the basis to be orthonormal, we would end up with variances that diverge which is not so desirable (because it means our functions are decaying rather slowly).