Wave packet systems on local fields

In this paper, we introduce the notion of wave packet systems on local fields of positive characteristic and derive some characterizations of these systems by means of two basic equations in the Fourier domain. More precisely, we establish a complete characterization of orthogonal wave packet systems in L2(K) which include the corresponding results of wavelet analysis and Gabor theory as the special cases. We shall also provide a sufficient condition of the completeness of wave packet systems on local fields of positive characteristic subject to some mild conditions. The paper concludes with the necessary and sufficient conditions for the wave packet systems to be wave packet Parseval frames for L2(K).