Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2018 / iii / Paper 340 / 1 / a / Solution

An orthonormal wavelet is a function whose integer translates and dyadic dilatesform an orthonormal basis of the Hilbert space $L^2(\mathbb{R})$. Thus their pairwise inner products are ${\delta }_{j,j^{\prime }}{\delta }_{k,k^{\prime }}$, and their closed linear span is the whole space. Equivalently, every $f\in L^2(\mathbb{R})$ has the norm-convergent expansionThe factor $2^{j/2}$ preserves the $L^2$ norm under dilation.