The unitary extension principle (UEP) by Ron and Shen yields a sufficient condition for the construction of Parseval wavelet frames with multiple generators. In this paper we characterize the UEP-type wavelet systems that can be extended to a Parseval wavelet frame by adding just one UEP-type wavelet system. We derive a condition that is necessary for the extension of a UEP-type wavelet system to any Parseval wavelet frame with any number of generators, and prove that this condition is also sufficient to ensure that an extension with just two generators is possible.

In this work we introduce a class of discrete groups containing subgroups of abstract translations and dilations, respectively. A variety of wavelet systems can appear as $\pi(\Gamma)\psi$, where $\pi$ is a unitary representation of a wavelet group and $\Gamma$ is the abstract pseudo-lattice $\Gamma$. We prove a condition in order that a Parseval frame $\pi(\Gamma)\psi$ can be dilated to an orthonormal basis of the form $\tau(\Gamma)\Psi$ where $\tau$ is a super-representation of $\pi$. For a subclass of groups that includes the case where the translation subgroup is Heisenberg, we show that this condition always holds, and we cite familiar examples as applications.

Perturbation theory is a fundamental tool in Banach space theory. However, the applications of the classical results are limited by the fact that they force the perturbed sequence to be equivalent to the given sequence. We will develop a more general perturbation theory that does not force equivalence of the sequences.

Given a finite group $G$, we examine the classification of all frame representations of $G$ and the classification of all $G$-frames, \emph{i.e.,} frames induced by group representations of $G$. We show that the exact number of equivalence classes of $G$-frames and the exact number of frame representations can be explicitly calculated. We also discuss how to calculate the largest number $L$ such that there exists an $L$-tuple of strongly disjoint $G$-frames.

Recent work of Ding and Huang shows that if we perturb a bounded operator (between Hilbert spaces) which has closed range, then the perturbed operator again has closed range. We extend this result by introducing a weaker perturbation condition, and our result is then used to prove a theorem about the stability of frames for a subspace.

It is well known that the compactly supported wavelets cannot belong to the class $C^\infty({\bf R})\cap L^2({\bf R})$. This is also true for wavelets with exponential decay. We show that one can construct wavelets in the class $C^\infty({\bf R})\cap L^2({\bf R})$ that are ``almost'' of exponential decay and, moreover, they are band-limited. We do this by showing that we can adapt the construction of the Lemari\'e-Meyer wavelets \cite{LM} that is found in \cite{BSW} so that we obtain band-limited, $C^\infty$-wavelets on $\bf R$ that have subexponential decay, that is, for every $0<\varepsilon<1$, there exits $C_\varepsilon>0$ such that $|\psi(x)|\leq C_\varepsilon e^{-|x|^{1-\varepsilon}}$, $x\in\bf R$. Moreover, all of its derivatives have also subexponential decay. The proof is constructive and uses the Gevrey classes of functions.