Orthonormal Compactly Supported Wavelets with Optimal Sobolev Regularity

Abstract

Numerical optimization is used to construct new orthonormal compactly supported wavelets with Sobolev regularity exponent as high as possible among those mother wavelets with a fixed support length and a fixed number of vanishing moments. The increased regularity is obtained by optimizing the locations of the roots the scaling filter has on the interval (pi/2,π). The results improve those obtained by I. Daubechies [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 41 (1988), 909-996], H. Volkmer [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 26 (1995), 1075-1087], and P. G. Lemarie-Rieusset and E. Zahrouni [Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 5 (1998), 92-105].