Abstract. The notion of complex B-spline is extended to a multivariate setting by means of ridge functions employing the known geometric relationship between ordinary B-splines and multivariate B-splines. To derive properties of complex B-splines in Rs, 1 < s ∈ N, the Dirichlet average has to be generalized to include infinite dimensional simplices △∞. Based on this generalization several identities of multivariate complex B-splines are presented.