From: spellucci@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de (Peter Spellucci)
Subject: Re: Wavelet tranform
Date: 1 Feb 2000 18:07:51 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis
Summary: [missing]

In article <38970FB7.26DA@cerfacs.fr>,
 Bruno Carpentieri <carpenti@cerfacs.fr> writes:
|> Hi there.
|> 
|> Anyone knows if exists a wavelet basis able to transform a dense
|> symmetric (non-Hermitian) matrix whose entries decay smoothly far 
|> from the diagonal into a sparse matrix ?

Schneider, Reinhold
Multiskalen- und Wavelet-Matrixkompression. 
Analysisbasierte Methoden zur effizienten Loesung grosser 
vollbesetzter Gleichungssysteme. (Multiscale and wavelet
matrix compression). (German)
[B, H] Advances in Numerical Mathematics. Stuttgart: 
B. G. Teubner. Darmstadt: TH Darmstadt, ii, 246 S. DM 59.80; 
oeS 437.00; sFr. 54.00 (1998). [ISBN 3-519-02739-9/pbk]

900.65127
Konik, Michael; Schneider, Reinhold; Steidl, Gabriele
Matrix sparsification by discrete wavelet transform. (English)
[J] Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 76, Suppl. 1, 445 (1996). [ISSN 0044-2267]


Alpert, Bradley K.
Construction of simple multiscale bases for fast matrix operations. (English)
[CA] Ruskai, Mary Beth (ed.) et al., Wavelets and their applications. 
Boston, MA etc.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, (ISBN 0-86720-225-4/hbk). 
211-226 (1992).

hope that helps
peter