Nearly tight frames of spin wavelets on the sphere

Abstract

We show that the spin wavelets on the sphere $S^2$, which were constructed by the first author and Marinucci in an earlier article, can be chosen so as to form a nearly tight frame. These spin wavelets can be applied to the study of the polarization of cosmic microwave background radiation. For certain of these frames, there is a positive $C$ such that each frame element at scale $a^j$ is supported in a geodesic ball of radius $Ca^j$.