An asymptotic expansion in wavelet analysis and its application to accurate numerical wavelet decomposition (Q1200536)

The authors consider a dilation operator \(T\) admitting a scaling function \(\Phi\) with compact support as fixed point. In the first section it is shown that the adjoint operator \(T^*\) admits a sequence of polynomial eigenfunctions and that for a smooth function \(f\) an expansion in terms of these polynomials can be found, which reveals the asymptotic behavior of \(T^{*n}f(x)\) for \(n \to \infty\). In the next section this result is used for the accurate numerical computation of the integral of the function \(f\) multiplied by the scaling function \(\Phi\). In the last section the authors describe an efficient multiresolution scheme, based on Richardson extrapolation, for the computation of the coefficients of the wavelet decomposition of a smooth function. The paper concludes with some numerical illustrative results.