A characterization of Schauder frames which are near-Schauder bases (Q1958529)

The authors consider Schauder frames in Banach space \(X\), i.e., sequences \((x_j,f_j)_{j\in \mathbb N}\) where \(x_j\in X\) and \(f_j\in X^*\) such that \(x=\sum_{j\in \mathbb N}f_j(x)x_j\) for every \(x\in X\) and, in particular, the question when this is a near-Schauder basis, i.e., when one gets a Schauder basis of \(X\) by removing a finite number of elements from \((x_j)_{j\in \mathbb N}\). The minimal associated sequence space \((E_{\min},\hat e_i)\) is the completion of the space of sequences with only finitely many nonzero terms with respect to the norm \(\|\sum a_ie_i\|_{\min} = \max_{m\leq n}\|\sum_{i=m}^n a_ix_i\|\), where \(e_i=\hat e_i\) is the sequence \((\delta_{ij})_{j\in \mathbb N}\). The minimal associated reconstruction operator \(S_{\min}\) is given by \(\sum a_i \hat e_i \mapsto \sum a_ix_i\). In the main result, the authors show that \((x_i,f_i)_{i\in \mathbb N}\) is a near-Schauder basis if and only if the kernel of \(S_{\min}\) is finite-dimensional or, equivalently, if the kernel of \(S_{\min}\) contains no copy of \(c_0\). Related applications are made to Besselian frames and near-Riesz bases in the Hilbert space setting.