Vanishing moment conditions for wavelet atoms in higher dimensions (Q5965006)

This paper extends the celebrated wavelet-ONB's, related to dyadic scalings of one-dimensional functions [\textit{I. Daubechies}, Ten lectures on wavelets. Philadelphia, PA: SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1992; Zbl 0776.42018)], [\textit{S. Mallat}, A wavelet tour of signal processing. The sparse way. 3rd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press (2009; Zbl 1170.94003)] to more dimensions and to more general dilation groups. This generalization comes at the cost of replacing ONB's with frames, which are obtained via the \textit{H. G. Feichtinger} and \textit{K. H. Gröchenig} theory of coorbit spaces [J. Funct. Anal. 86, No. 2, 307--340 (1989; Zbl 0691.46011)]. This theory allows for choosing suitable admissible atoms \(g\) and well-spread discrete sets \(\{x_k\}\) taken from the underlying transformation group, such that a frame expansion \(f=\sum\limits_k \lambda_k \pi(x_k) g\) holds (Theorem 6.1 of the above reference). \(\pi\) denotes a square integrable irreducible unitary representation of the group, the above expansions converge in many relevant function spaces and are useful for nonlinear finite approximations of the signal \(f\). The author adapts these results to wavelet transforms in higher dimensions and with general affine groups. In this way expansions of the kind above are obtained, where \(g\) can be chosen to be band limited or to have compact support with mild decay properties of the Fourier transform. Moreover, such a frame construction is possible for any sufficiently fine sampling of the group. In particular diagonal, similitude and shearlet groups are investigated as examples. A generalization of the method to non-irreducible representations is announced by the author. Related reading: [\textit{H. Rauhut} and \textit{T. Ullrich}, J. Funct. Anal. 260, No. 11, 3299--3362 (2011; Zbl 1219.46035)].