%0 Journal Article %T Refinability of splines derived from regular tessellations %A J£¿rg Peters %J Mathematics %D 2012 %I arXiv %X Splines can be constructed by convolving the indicator function of a cell whose shifts tessellate $\R^k$. This paper presents simple, non-algebraic 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 non-refinable constructions are hex-splines and their generalization to the Voronoi cells of non-Cartesian root lattices. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5532v2