In this paper, we shall study the solutions of functional equations of the form
,
where Φ=(
φ1,...,
φr)
T is an
r×1 column vector of functions on the
s-dimensional Euclidean space,
a:= (
a(
α))
α∈
Zs is an exponentially decaying sequence of
r×
r complex matrices called refinement mask and
M is an
s×
s integer matrix such that lim
n→∞M-n=0. We are interested in the question, for a mask a with exponential decay, if there exists a solution Φ to the functional equation with each function
φj,
j=1, ...,
r, belonging to
L2(R
s) and having exponential decay in some sense? Our approach will be to consider the convergence of vector cascade algorithms in weighted
L2 spaces. The vector cascade operator
Qa,M associated with mask
a and matrix
M is defined by
The iterative scheme (
Qa,Mn f)
n=1,2,... is called a vector cascade algorithm or a vector subdivision scheme. The purpose of this paper is to provide some conditions for the vector cascade algorithm to converge in (
L2,μ(R
s))
r, the weighted
L2 space. Inspired by some ideas in [Jia, R. Q., Li, S.: Refinable functions with exponential decay: An approach via cascade algorithms.
J. Fourier Anal. Appl.,
17, 1008-1034 (2011)], we prove that if the vector cascade algorithm associated with a and M converges in (
L2(R
s))
r, then its limit function belongs to (
L2,μ(R
s))
r for some
μ>0.