Building highly conditional almost greedy and quasi-greedy bases in Banach spaces (Q1715470): Difference between revisions

The paper is devoted to quasi-greedy bases in Banach spaces. A semi-normalized basis $(x_n)$ in a Banach space $X$ with the biorthogonal functionals $(x_n^*)$ is said to be quasi-greedy provided that there is $C < \infty$ such that $\|f - S_F f\| \leq C \|f\|$ for every pair of $f \in X$ and a finite subset $F$ of $\mathbb N$ such that $|x_j^*(f)| \leq |x_k^*(f)|$ for all $j \in \mathbb N \setminus F$ and $k \in F$, where $S_F f = \sum_{n \in F} x_n^*(f) x_n$. If the basis $(x_n)$ is conditional, the measure of its conditionality is expressed by the growth of the sequence $(k_n)$ given by $k_n = \sup_{|F| \leq n} \|S_F\|$. There were several known results on the growth of $(k_n)$ for quasi-greedy bases, for instance, the estimate $k_m \lesssim \log m$. The target questions for the paper are the following ones. Given a non-superreflexive Banach space $X$ with a quasi-greedy basis -- is there a quasi-greedy basis in $X$ with $k_m \approx \log m$? The same for $k_m \gtrsim (\log m)^a$ with a given $a \in (0,1)$? Actually, the authors deal with a somewhat lower characteristic of conditionality of $(x_n)$ instead of $(k_n)$, namely, with the sequence $(L_n)$ defined by $L_m = \sup \|S_F f\|/\|f\|$, where the supremum is taken over all finite subsets $F$ of $\mathbb N$ and all nonzero $f \in X$ with $ x_n^*(f) = 0$ for all $n > m$. The paper contains a number of deep results on the greatest possible growth of $(L_n)$ for quasi-greedy bases in non-superreflexive Banach spaces.