Wavelets and self-affine tilings (Q1801494)

The author generalizes the standard construction of a wavelet basis and multiresolution analyses to the case of periodic (a lattice subgroup \(\Gamma\subset \mathbb{R}^ n\) translates the tiles transitively), self- affine (there exists a strictly expansive matrix \(M\) which maps \(\Gamma\) into itself and maps a tile \(T\) onto a union of \(m\) other tiles, where \(m= |\text{det }M|)\) tilings of \(\mathbb{R}^ n\). The standard wavelet bases correspond to the case when \(\Gamma= \mathbb{Z}^ n\), \(M= 2I\) (\(I\)=identity matrix) and \(m= 2^ n\). The main result is that, assuming the existence of a self-affine \textit{lattice} tiling such that the \(m\) translates of a given tile \(T\) by distinguished elements in each coset of \(M\Gamma\) in \(\Gamma\) exactly cover the affine dilation \(MT\) of \(T\), there exists a so-called \(r\)-regular multiresolution analysis and an associated wavelet basis for every \(r\). Here the term ``\(r\)-regular'' means that the functions \(\psi_ 1,\dots, \psi_ m\) forming a wavelet basis associated to a multiresolution analysis satisfy the condition that they are \(C^ r\) and rapidly decreasing in the sense that \[ |(\partial/\partial x)^ \alpha \psi_ i(x)| \leq c_ m(1+ | x|)^{-m} \] for all \(m\) and \(i\) and \(|\alpha|\leq r\). A final section concerns the existence of self-similar tilings (the matrix \(M\) is a similitude).