Multiplication of Short Wavelet Series Using Connection Coefficients

Valérie Perrier and Mladen Victor Wickerhauser


Given two functions approximable with short wavelet series, we wish to find the short wavelet series representing their product.  This can be done by pre-calculating the {\em connection coefficients} which express the product of two wavelets or scaling functions as a wavelet series.  We follow a method suggested by Daubechies and also used by Dahmen et al., to rapidly compute these coefficients as elements of a matrix which solves a fixed-point problem, and derive some of the formulas and identities satisfied by the coefficients.  We estimate the complexity of the connection coefficient multiplication  algorithm by counting the number of terms, and then illustrate through a series of graphs how few of these terms are non-negligible.
 

Advances in Wavelets,Ka-Sing Lau Ed, ISBN -981-4021-08-3, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, pp 77--101 (1999) 
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