Cubic spline prewavelets on the four-directional mesh (Q1405728)

The multiresolution analysis (MRA) \(\{V_i\}_{i\in Z}\) of \(L^2(R^2)\) with \(V_0=S_3^1(\Delta)\) being the space of square integrable \(C^1\) piecewise cubic splines on the four-directional mesh \(\Delta\) is considered. Then \(V_1=S_3^1({1\over2}\Delta)\). The aim of the paper is to obtain an explicit construction of a collection of functions from \(V_1\) which are orthogonal to \(V_0\) and whose translations span the space \(W=V_1\ominus V_0\). The constructed prewavelets have small compact support and provide stable, orthogonal decomposition of \(L^2(R^2)\). The construction is based on the basic ideas for generating prewavelets from shift-invariant spaces [\textit{C. de Boor, R. A. DeVore} and \textit{A. Ron}, Constructive Approximation 9, No. 2--3, 123--166 (1993; Zbl 0773.41013].