抄録
In the BEM with the non-orthogonal spline wavelets for steady-state out-of-plane wave propagation problems, the relation between the number of non-zero entries of the coefficient matrices and the degree of freedom (DOF) 
N is theoretically investigated using the information on the size and the arrangement of the support of the basis functions. The coefficient matrices are compressed by truncation with a prescribed threshold value κ. The value of κ is determined so that the amount of storage is minimized without reducing the accuracy of BE solution, and shows κ ≈ ρ
N−β (ρ, β > 0). The number of non-zero entries of the matrices 
G and 
H, 

(
G) and 

(
H) increases in proportion to 
O(
N log 
N) or 
O(
N1+γ) (0 < γ < 1). The low compression rate of the coefficient matrix for a high-frequency problem can be improved using the wavelets with a higher-order vanishing momemt property.