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What are good references for learning wavelet theory?

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Below are summaries of the responses I received concerning wavelet theory.
Thanks to those who responded.

The paper by Gilbert Strang in SIAM Review looks like the best place to
start reading.

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From Knut Morken (knutm@ifi.uio.no):

Daubechies I.,
Orthonormal bases of compactly supported wavelets.
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 41 (1988), 909-996.

Cavaretta A., Dahmen W., Micchelli C. [Editor: "Michelli" in the
original],
Stationary Subdivision,
Preprint No. A-89-25,
Freie Universitat Berlin,
Fachbereich Mathematik: Serie A, Mathematik,
(to appear in Memoirs of the AMS.)

Dahmen W. and Micchelli C. [Editor: "Michelli" in the original],
On Stationary Subdivision and the Construction of Compactly Supported
Orthonormal Wavelets,
Preprint No. A-90-6,
Freie Universitat Berlin,
Fachbereich Mathematik: Serie A, Mathematik.

There was a paper in SIAM Review recently that, as the title says, gives
a brief introduction...

Strang G.,
Wavelets and dilation problems: a brief introduction,
SIAM Review 31 (1989), 614-627.

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From Andrew Mullhaupt (amull@morgan.com):

Yves Meyer wrote a large number of papers on the wavelet theory
in the past few years...Frazier and Jawerth had a different approach to
atomic decompositions of function spaces which they worked out in a
paper they published at a conference in Lund in 1984 (?)...

Jawerth did work out a "Fast" phi transform (as they called their
decomposition) and has, I believe, used it in PDE applications and
signal processing. Jawerth is at the Washington University in St.
Louis, and although he was visiting Berkeley (MSRI) for their year of
analysis, Mike Frazier is probably back at UNM by now.

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If more come in, I'll follow up.

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