DOCUMENTA MATHEMATICA, Extra Volume ICM III (1998), 523-532

Jan-Olov Strömberg

Title: Computation with Wavelets in Higher Dimensions

In dimension $d$, a lattice grid of size $N$ has $N^d$ points. The representation of a function by, for instance, splines or the so-called non-standard wavelets with error $\epsilon$ would require $O(\epsilon^{-ad})$ lattice point values (resp. wavelet coefficients), for some positive $a$ depending on the spline order (resp. the properties of the wavelet). Unless $d$ is very small, we easily will get a data set that is larger than a computer in practice can handle, even for very moderate choices of $N$ or $\epsilon$. I will discuss how to organize the wavelets so that functions can be represented with $O((\log (1/\epsilon))^{a(d-1)}\epsilon^{-a})$ coefficients. Using wavelet packets, the number of coefficients may be further reduced.

1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary Secondary

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