Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
In this work we introduce a class of discrete groups containing subgroups of abstract translations and dilations, respectively. A variety of wavelet systems can appear as  
 $\pi \left( \Gamma\right)\psi $ , where  
 $\pi $  is a unitary representation of a wavelet group and  
 $\Gamma $  is the abstract pseudo-lattice  
 $\Gamma $ . We prove a sufficent condition in order that a Parseval frame  
 $\pi \left( \Gamma\right)\psi $  can be dilated to an orthonormal basis of the form  
 $\tau \left( \Gamma\right)\Psi $ , where  
 $\tau $  is a super-representation of  
 $\pi $ . For a subclass of groups that includes the case where the translation subgroup is Heisenberg, we show that this condition always holds, and we cite familiar examples as applications.