Compactly supported multi-refinable distributions and \(B\)-splines (Q852746)

Let \(\lambda >0\) and \(\mu >0\) be given. A compactly supported distribution \(\varphi\) is called \(\lambda\)-refinable, if \[ \varphi(x)=\sum_{j=-\infty}^{\infty} c_j\,\varphi( \lambda x - d_j), \] where \(\{j\in {\mathbb Z}; \,c_j\neq 0\}\) is finite and \[ \sum_{j=-\infty}^{\infty} c_j= \lambda. \] If \(\varphi\) is both \(\lambda\)-refinable and \(\mu\)-refinable, then \(\varphi\) is called multi-refinable. It is shown that a compactly supported multi-refinable distribution is a convolution of some splines.