most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-20T14:35:20Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/103606 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/103606/scaling-function pecsbowen 2012-07-31T13:23:08Z 2012-08-15T10:07:49Z

<p>Why is it important for the scaling function to have unit area in wavelets?</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/103606/scaling-function/103655#103655 timur 2012-08-01T04:15:14Z 2012-08-01T04:15:14Z

<p>This is just a normalization that makes some formulas simpler. An alternative would be to require that the $L^2$-norm (or some other norm) be $1$.</p>