04-15   Berichtsreihe des Mathematischen Seminars der Universität Kiel

Helmut Harbrecht, Rob Stevenson:

Wavelets with patchwise cancellation properties

We construct wavelets on general n-dimensional domains or manifolds via a domain decomposition technique, resulting in so-called composite wavelets. With this construction, wavelets with supports that extend to more than one patches are only continuous over the patch interfaces. Normally, this limited smoothness restricts the possibility for matrix compression, and with that the application of these wavelets in (adaptive) methods for solving operator equations. By modifying the scaling functions on the interval, and with that on the n-cube that serves as parameter domain, we obtain composite wavelets that have patchwise cancellation properties of any required order, meaning that the restriction of any wavelet to each patch is again a wavelet. This is also true when the wavelets are required to satisfy zeroth order homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on (part of) the boundary. As a result, compression estimates now depend only on the patchwise smoothness of the wavelets that one may choose. Taking also stability into account, our composite wavelets have all properties for the application to the (adaptive) solution of well-posed operator equations of orders 2 t for t ∈ (-1/2, 3/2).

Mathematics Subject Classification (1991): 46B15, 46E35, 65N55, 65T60

Bibliographical note: Math. Comp. 75, 1871-1889 (2006)


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