Shift Invariant Spaces for Local Fields

This paper is an investigation of shift invariant subspaces of L2(G), where G is a locally compact abelian group, or in general a local field, with a compact open subgroup. In this paper we state necessary and sufficient conditions for shifts of an element of L2(G) to be an orthonormal system or a Parseval frame. Also we show that each shift invariant subspace of L2(G) is a direct sum of principle shift invariant subspaces of L2(G) generated by Parseval frame generators.