Remarks on the construction of orthogonal wavelets (Q1317302)

The authors show how to construct the sequence of vector spaces \((V_ j)_{j \in \mathbb{Z}} \subset L^ 2 (\mathbb{R})\) of a multiresolution analysis from Mallat's function \(m_ 0(\xi) = \sum^ \infty_{-\infty} \alpha_ k \exp (ik\xi)\). The main result shows that the possibility of reconstructing the multiresolution analysis \((V_ j)_{j \in \mathbb{Z}}\) from \(m_ 0 (\xi)\) is equivalent to the possibility of solving the functional equation \(\varphi(x) = 2\sum^ \infty_{-\infty} \alpha_ k \varphi (2x+k)\), where \(\varphi \in L^ 2 \cap L^ 1\) and \(\int^ \infty_{-\infty} \varphi (x) dx=1\), by a fixed point method. This leads to studying the convergence in \(L^ 2(\mathbb{R})\) of the sequence \(f_ j(x)\) defined by \(f_{j+1} (x)=2 \sum^ \infty_{-\infty} \alpha_ k f_ j (2x+k)\) when \(f_ 0\) satisfies certain conditions. The authors also give a proof of \textit{A. Cohen}'s theorem [Ondelettes et traitement numérique du signal, RMA 25, Masson, Paris (1993)].