Invariance of a shift-invariant space

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Abstract: A shift-invariant space is a space of functions that is invariant under integer translations. Such spaces are often used as models for spaces of signals and images in mathematical and engineering applications. This paper characterizes those shift-invariant subspaces S that are also invariant under additional (non-integer) translations. For the case of finitely generated spaces, these spaces are characterized in terms of the generators of the space. As a consequence, it is shown that principal shift-invariant spaces with a compactly supported generator cannot be invariant under any non-integer translations.


A shift-invariant space on the real line is a closed space of functions on the real line that is invariant under integer translations. Shift-invariant spaces have been used in mathematics and engineering, such as in wavelet analysis, in spline theory, and in the sampling theorem. One example of a shift-invariant space is the Paley-Wiener space of functions that are bandlimited to \([-1/2, 1/2]\), and the other is the spline space with integer knots. The Paley-Wiener space has extra shift-invariance, particularly invariant under every real translation. Then a natural question is how to characterize shift-invariant spaces with extra invariance. In this paper, the authors show that either the shift-invariant space is invariant under every real translation, or the shift-invariant space is invariant under certain fraction of integers \(\mathbb{Z}/n\) for some positive integer \(n\) (which is called by \(1/n\)-invariance). In this paper, the authors give various characterizations to shift-invariant spaces on the real line with \(1/n\)-invariance.




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