The unconditional constants for Hilbert space frame expansions

The most fundamental notion in frame theory is the frame expansion of a vector. Although it is well known that these expansions are unconditionally convergent series, no characterizations of the unconditional constant were known. This has made it impossible to get accurate quantitative estimates for...

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Published in:Linear algebra and its applications 2017-05, Vol.521, p.1-18
Main Authors: Bemrose, Travis, Casazza, Peter G., Kaftal, Victor, Lynch, Richard G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Frame expansion
Frame operator
Frame relay
Hilbert space
Hilbert space frames
Linear algebra
Sequences
Space frames
Unconditional convergence
Vector space
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Summary:The most fundamental notion in frame theory is the frame expansion of a vector. Although it is well known that these expansions are unconditionally convergent series, no characterizations of the unconditional constant were known. This has made it impossible to get accurate quantitative estimates for problems which require using subsequences of a frame. We will prove some new results in frame theory by showing that the unconditional constants of the frame expansion of a vector in a Hilbert space are bounded by BA, where A,B are the frame bounds of the frame. Tight frames thus have unconditional constant one, which we then generalize by showing that Bessel sequences have frame expansions with unconditional constant one if and only if the sequence is an orthogonal sum of tight frames. We give further results concerning frame expansions, in which we examine when BA is actually attained or not. We end by discussing the connections of this work to frame multipliers. These results hold in both real and complex Hilbert spaces.
ISSN:0024-3795
1873-1856
DOI:10.1016/j.laa.2016.12.013