Construction and reconstruction of tight framelets and wavelets via matrix mask functions

The paper develops construction procedures for tight framelets and wavelets using matrix mask functions in the setting of a generalized multiresolution analysis (GMRA). We show the existence of a scaling vector of a GMRA such that its first component exhausts the spectrum of the core space near the origin. The corresponding low-pass matrix mask has an especially advantageous form enabling an effective reconstruction procedure of the original scaling vector. We also prove a generalization of the Unitary Extension Principle for an infinite number of generators. This results in the construction scheme for tight framelets using lowpass and high-pass matrix masks generalizing the classical MRA constructions. We prove that our scheme is flexible enough to reconstruct all possible orthonormal wavelets. As an illustration we exhibit a pathwise connected class of non-MSF non-MRA wavelets sharing the same wavelet dimension function. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.