Received 6 November 2006; 

revised 9 February 2007; 

accepted 12 March 2007. 

Communicated by Rong-Qing Jia. 

Available online 24 March 2007.

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the L₂-solutions of vector refinement equations with exponentially decaying masks and a general dilation matrix. A vector refinement equation with a general dilation matrix and exponentially decaying masks is of the form

where the vector of functions φ=(φ₁,…,φ_r)^T is in is an exponentially decaying sequence of r×r matrices called refinement mask and M is an s×s integer matrix such that lim_n→∞M^-n=0. Associated with the mask a and dilation matrix M is a linear operator Q_a on given by

The iterative scheme is called vector subdivision scheme or vector cascade algorithm. The purpose of this paper is to provide a necessary and sufficient condition to guarantee the sequence to converge in L₂-norm. As an application, we also characterize biorthogonal multiple refinable functions, which extends some main results in [B. Han, R.Q. Jia, Characterization of Riesz bases of wavelets generated from multiresolution analysis, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., to appear] and [R.Q. Jia, Convergence of vector subdivision schemes and construction of biorthogonal multiple wavelets, Advances in Wavelet (Hong Kong, 1997), Springer, Singapore, 1998, pp. 199–227] to the general setting.

Keywords: Refinement equations; Infinite refinement mask; Subdivision schemes; Transition operator; Biorthogonal multiple refinable functions

Mathematical subject codes: 42C40; 39B12; 46B15; 47A10; 47B37