Twisted B-splines in the complex plane (Q2667046)

B-splines in one dimension, quasi-interpolants using them, and (pre-)wavelets constructed as their linear combinations, i.e., from the linear spaces generated by them, are highly important tools in approximation theory and numerical analysis. Usually, the B-splines are defined for real variables, and it is by now relatively straightforward to construct B-spline (pre-)wavelets on equally spaced, following the work by \textit{C. K. Chui} and \textit{J. Wang} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 330, No. 2, 903--915 (1992; Zbl 0759.41008)], or with somewhat more effort also on nonequally spaced knots (see a paper by [\textit{M. D. Buhmann} and \textit{C. A. Micchelli}, Numer. Math. 61, No. 4, 455--474 (1992; Zbl 0735.41009)]). In the paper under review, so-called twisted B-splines and their linear spaces are considered, and wavelets or pre-wavelets are constructed. It is much harder to construct multiresolution analyses with these functions, and a comprehensive method is offered by the authors to generate the wavelets. (In fact, nonstationary multiresolution analyses are needed using twisted translations and dilations.) Translates of the classical B-splines are routinely used in order to construct quasi-interpolants from B-spline spaces, but here so-called twisted translates are necessary. They provide a Riesz basis which is important for the rest of the construction.