Let φ : ℝd → ℂ be a compactly supported function which satisfies a refinement equation of the form [Formula: see text] where Γ ⊂ ℝd is a lattice, Λ is a finite subset of Γ, and A is a dilation matrix. We prove, under the hypothesis of linear independence of the Γ-translates of φ, that there exists a correspondence between the vectors of the Jordan basis of a finite submatrix of L = [cAi-j]i,j∈Γ and a finite-dimensional subspace [Formula: see text] in the shift-invariant space generated by φ. We provide a basis of [Formula: see text] and show that its elements satisfy a property of homogeneity associated to the eigenvalues of L. If the function φ has accuracy κ, this basis can be chosen to contain a basis for all the multivariate polynomials of degree less than κ. These latter functions are associated to eigenvalues that are powers of the eigenvalues of A-1. Furthermore we show that the dimension of [Formula: see text] coincides with the local dimension of φ, and hence, every function in the shift-invariant space generated by φ can be written locally as a linear combination of translates of the homogeneous functions.
