Smooth Functions Associated with Wavelet Sets on ℝd, d≥1, and Frame Bound Gaps

The theme is to smooth characteristic functions of Parseval frame wavelet sets by convolution in order to obtain implementable, computationally viable, smooth wavelet frames. We introduce the following: a new method to improve frame bound estimation; a shrinking technique to construct frames; and a nascent theory concerning frame bound gaps. The phenomenon of a frame bound gap occurs when certain sequences of functions, converging in L2 to a Parseval frame wavelet, generate systems with frame bounds that are uniformly bounded away from 1. We prove that smoothing a Parseval frame wavelet set wavelet on the frequency domain by convolution with elements of an approximate identity produces a frame bound gap. Furthermore, the frame bound gap for such frame wavelets in L2(ℝd) increases and converges as d increases.