Affine frames of multivariate box splines and their affine duals. (Q1865813)

In the paper, simple and explicit constructions of affine frames and their affine duals are given. The construction is based on the mixed extension principle introduced by \textit{A. Ron} and \textit{Z. Shen} [J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 3, 617--637 (1997; Zbl 0904.42025)]. The method is applied to multivariate box splines being refinable with a dilation matrix \( M\), where \(M \in {\mathbb Z}^{N\times N}\) satisfies \( M = n I\) or \(M^r = n I\) for some \(r > 1\) and \(n \geq 2\). In particular, for a given refinable box spline \( \varphi_{\Xi} \), primal and dual polynomial masks \( m_l, \tilde m_l\) \((l = 0, \dots, L)\) are constructed, such that the primal scaling function (defined by \(m_0\)) is a finite linear combination of translates of \(\varphi_{\Xi}\), the dual scaling function \(\tilde \varphi\) (defined by \(\tilde m_0\)) is arbitrarily regular and the wavelets (given by symbols \(m_l, \tilde m_l\), \(l = 1, \dots , L \) with \(L\) independent of the regularity) are generators of dual affine frames. The method can also be applied to generalized B-splines.