Dyadic representation theorem using smooth wavelets with compact support

The representation of a general Calder\'on--Zygmund operator in terms of dyadic Haar shift operators first appeared as a tool to prove the $A_2$ theorem, and it has found a number of other applications. In this paper we prove a new dyadic representation theorem by using smooth compactly supported wavelets in place of Haar functions. A key advantage of this is that we achieve a faster decay of the expansion when the kernel of the general Calder\'on--Zygmund operator has additional smoothness.