The affine synthesis operator Sc = P j>0 P k∈Z d c j,k ψ j,k is shown to map the coefficient space ℓ p (Z+ × Z d) surjectively onto L p (R d), for p ∈ (0, 1]. Here ψ j,k (x) = | det aj| 1/p ψ(ajx − k) for dilation matrices aj that expand , and the synthesizer ψ ∈ L p (R d) need satisfy only mild restrictions, for example ψ ∈ L 1 (R d) with nonzero integral or else with periodization that is rea...