Frame and wavelet systems on the sphere

Abstract

In this paper we formulate a weighted version of minimum problem (1.4) on the sphere and we show that, for $K\le L$, if $\set{ϕ_k}^K_{k=1}$ consists of the spherical functions with degree less than $N$ we can localize the points $(ξ_1,...,ξ_L)$ on the sphere so that the solution of this problem is the simplest possible. This localization is connected to the discrete orthogonality of the spherical functions which was proved in [3]. Using these points we construct a frame system and a wavelet system on the sphere and we study the properties of these systems. For $K>L$ a similar construction was made in paper [4], but in that case the solution of the minimum problem (1.4) is not as efficient as it is in our case. The analogue of Fejér and de la Valée-Poussin summation methods introduced in [3] can be expressed by the frame system introduced in this paper.