Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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 \left( \Gamma\right)\psi $ , where
$\pi $ is a unitary representation of a wavelet group and
$\Gamma $ is the abstract pseudo-lattice
$\Gamma $ . We prove a sufficent condition in order that a Parseval frame
$\pi \left( \Gamma\right)\psi $ can be dilated to an orthonormal basis of the form
$\tau \left( \Gamma\right)\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.