Refinability of splines derived from regular tessellations

Splines can be constructed by convolving the indicator function of a cell whose shifts tessellate Rn. This paper presents simple, geometric criteria that imply that, for regular shift-invariant tessellations, only a small subset of such spline families yield nested spaces: primarily the well-known tensor-product and box splines. Among the many nonrefinable constructions are hex-splines and their generalization to the Voronoi cells of non-Cartesian root lattices.