Cohen, Dahmen and DeVore designed in [Adaptive wavelet methods for elliptic operator equations: convergence rates, Math. Comp., 2001, 70(233), 27–75] and [Adaptive wavelet methods II¶beyond the elliptic case, Found. Comput. Math., 2002, 2(3), 203–245] a general concept for solving operator equations. Its essential steps are: transformation of the variational formulation into the well-conditioned infinite-dimensional l 2-problem, finding the convergent iteration process for the l 2-problem and finally...

A new orthonormality condition for scaling functions is derived. This condition shows a close connection between orthonormality and relations among discrete scaling moments. This new condition in connection with certain approximation properties of scaling functions enables to prove new relations among discrete scaling moments and consequently the same relations for continuous scaling moments.