Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/iii/paper-62/6/c/solution

First use the usual real-valued, measurable interpretation of the transition data. The complementary squares then imply , and the compact support gives . Consider the periodization on . For , only contributes. For , only and can contribute, and their squares sum to one. For , apply the complementary identity at to obtain . Therefore the orthonormal translates and Fourier periodization identity holds almost everywhere.
Define a periodic MRA low-pass filter by prescribing it on :
In the central band, , so . In the rest of this fundamental interval, both and vanish. If , reducing modulo puts it in an outer band where , and again . For , both and vanish. Endpoint choices affect only a null set. Thus the complementary transition bands for a scaling function give both Fourier conditions, with this explicitly constructed periodic mask.
A concrete real-valued choice, illustrating that the transition constraints are consistent, is
On the positive transition band put . The other translate has parameter , so the sum is .
There is a genuine qualification in the printed formulation: it uses ordinary squares without explicitly declaring real-valued. If arbitrary complex values are allowed, the claimed verification is false. Take for , for , and set
The printed complementary-square rule holds, including its endpoints: in the interior , while the endpoints pair one with zero. Nevertheless, for ,
This compactly supported function is the Fourier transform of an function, so it is a counterexample within the natural complex Hilbert space. The verification is valid for real-valued , or with absolute squares in the transition rule; it is not valid for unrestricted complex with ordinary squares.

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