Supersets of wavelet sets

Abstract

In this thesis, we consider a two-basic set which is defined as a set whose both integral translations and dyadic dilations cover R and that intersects itself at most twice translationally and dilationally. We obtain some necessary conditions and some sufficient conditions for a two-basic set S to contain a wavelet set. The main results, which are in terms of the relationship between two explicitly constructed subsets A and B of S and two subsets T2 and D2 of S intersecting itself exactly twice translationally and dilationally respectively, are that (1) if A∪B ⊈ T2 ∩D2 then S does not contain a wavelet set; and that (2) if A∪B ⊆ T2∩D2 then every wavelet subset of S must be a subset of S\(A∪B) and if S\(A ∪ B) satisfies a “weak” condition then there exists a wavelet subset of S \ (A ∪ B).