Solution

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The answer is no with the integer-translation and dilation conventions of this multiresolution analysis. The orthonormal basis axiom forces to consist of functions constant on the cells . Dilation forces to consist of functions constant on . However, the proposed scaling function changes value at , in the interior of the cell . It is therefore not in , contradicting nesting:
Changing values at endpoints makes no difference in . The usual Haar wavelet instead uses the scaling function ; an arbitrary half-unit translation does not preserve the required refinement grid.

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