Greedy approximation and the multivariate Haar system

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Let \(X\) be an infinite-dimensional separable Banach space with norm \(\|\cdot\|\) and let \(\Psi= \{\psi_n\}^\infty_{n=1}\) be a normalized basis, that is \(\|\psi_n\|= 1\). For a given \(f\in X\), \[ \sigma_m(f,\Psi)= \underset{\#\Lambda= m}{}{\text{inf}}\;\underset{b_k,k\in\Lambda}{}{\text{inf}}\;\Biggl\| f-\sum_{k\in \Lambda} b_k\psi_k\Biggr\| \] measures best \(m\)-term approximation to \(f\) by \(\Psi\). The element \(f\) has an expansion \(f= \sum^\infty_{k=1} c_k\psi_k\). Consider a permutation \(\rho= \{\rho_j\}^\infty_{j=1}\) of \(\mathbb{N}\) such that \(\{|c_{\rho_j}|\}^\infty_{j=1}\) is decreasing. Then \(G_m(f,\Psi,\rho)= \sum^m_{j=1} c_{\rho_j}\psi_j\) is the \(m\)th greedy approximant to \(f\) corresponding to \(\rho\). The basis \(\Psi\) is said to be a greedy basis if there exists \(G> 0\) such that for all \(f\in X\), choice of \(\rho\) and \(m\in\mathbb{N}\), \[ \| f- G_m(f,\Psi, \rho)\|\leq G\sigma_m(f,\Psi). \] The paper considers, in place of this greedy algorithm, a weak greedy algorithm defined in the following way. A sequence \(\tau= \{t_k\}^\infty_{k=1}\), with each \(t_k\in [0,1]\), is referred to in this context as a weakness sequence. Given a weakness sequence one chooses inductively a sequence \(\{n_k\}^\infty_{k=1}\) such that \(|c_{n_1}|\geq t_1\max|c_n|\), \(|c_{n_k}|\geq t_k\max\{|c_n|: n\not\in\{n_1,\dots, n_{k-1}\}\}\) and \(n_k\not\in\{n_1,\dots, n_{k-1}\}\). Define \[ G^\tau_m(f,\Psi)= \sum^m_{k=1} c_{n_k}\psi_{n_k}, \] the dependence upon the choice of \(\{n_k\}^m_{k=1}\) being implicit. Theorem 1 contains the result that if the basis is unconditional then \(G^\tau_m(f,\Psi)\to f\) as \(m\to\infty\), always, if and only if the series \(\sum t_k \psi_k\) in \(X\) is divergent. In the case that is an unconditional basis Theorems 4 and 5 compare \(\| f- G^\tau_m(f,\Psi)\|\) and \(\sigma_m(f, \Psi)\): there exists \(C(\Psi)\) and \(\mu(\tau,m)\) such that \[ \| f- G^r_m(f, \Psi)\|\leq C(\Psi)\mu(\tau, m)\sigma_m(f,\Psi); \] and there exists \(C(\Psi)\) and a sequence \(\{\nu_m\}^\infty_{m=1}\) (which is identified) such that \[ \| f- G^\tau_{\nu_m}(f,\Psi)\|\leq C(\Psi)\sigma_m(f,\Psi). \] Let \({\mathcal H}= \{{\mathcal H}_k\}^\infty_{k=1}\) be the Haar basis on \([0, 1]\) and let \({\mathcal H}_p\) be \({\mathcal H}\) normalized in the \(L_p\) norm. Then \({\mathcal H}^d_p= {\mathcal H}_p\times\cdots\times{\mathcal H}_p\) is a multivariate Haar system on \([0,1]^d\), indexed by \(\mathbb{Z}^d\). Theorem 6 identifies, for \(1< p<\infty\), subsequences \({\mathcal M}\) of \({\mathcal H}^d_p\) such that \({\mathcal M}\) is a greedy basis for its closed linear span in \(L_p([0, 1]^d)\). There are some further related results but Section 5, concerned with rather different questions, is entitled `Some direct and inverse theorems in \(m\)-term approximation with regard to \({\mathcal H}^d_p\).











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