Diagonalization of shift-preserving operators

Abstract In this note we study the structure of shift-preserving operators acting on a finitely generated shift-invariant space. We define a new notion of diagonalization for these operators, which we call s-diagonalization. We give necessary and sufficient conditions on a bounded shift-preserving operator in order to be s-diagonalizable. These conditions are in terms of its range operator. We also obtain a generalized Spectral Theorem for normal bounded shift-preserving operators.