OPERATOR-ADAPTED WAVELETS: CONNECTION WITH THE STRANG–FIX CONDITIONS

Abstract

In this paper, we present an explicit method to construct directly in the x-domain compactly supported scaling functions corresponding to the wavelets adapted to a sum of differential operators with constant coefficients. Here the adaptation to an operator is taken to mean that the wavelets give a diagonal form of the operator matrix. We show that the biorthogonal compactly supported wavelets adapted to a sum of differential operators with constant coefficients are closely connected with the representation of the null-space of the adjoint operator by the corresponding scaling functions. We consider the necessary and sufficient conditions (actually the Strang–Fix conditions) on integer shifts of a compactly supported function (distribution) f ∈ S'(ℝ) to represent exactly any function from the null-space of a sum of differential operators with constant coefficients.