Convergence rates of cascade algorithms associated with nonhomogeneous refinement equations (Q1826763)

The author studies the convergence rates of the iterative nonhomogeneous refinement process: \[ \phi_n(x) = \sum_{\alpha \in Z^d} a(\alpha) \phi_{n-1} (M(x) - \alpha) + g(x), \] where \(x \in R^d\), \(\phi_n = (\phi_{n,1}, \ldots, \phi_{n,r})\), \(\phi_0 \in (L^p(R^d))^r\) is given, \(M\) is a \(d \times d\) nondegenerate integer matrix with the property that \(\lim_{n \to \infty} M^{-n} = 0\), \(g\) is some vector of compactly supported functions on \(R^d\), and \(a\) is a finitely supported sequence. The convergence rates are given in terms of the norms of the joint spectral radius of some linear operators depending on \(a\) and \(M\). Several examples are studied in detail.