On constructions of strong and uniformly minimal M-bases in Banach spaces (Q1973462)

A sequence in a Banach space is called complete if its linear span is dense; other definitions can be found in the paper. The author introduces flattened perturbations, with respect to a given block partition of the natural numbers. These are a special case of block perturbations of biorthogonal systems. It is known that every complete norming biorthogonal system has a block perturbation which is a strong \(M\)-basis. This result is strengthened here by showing that for every complete norming biorthogonal system, there is a block partition of the natural numbers so that every flattened perturbation with respect thereto is a strong \(M\)-basis. It has long been known that every separable Banach space has a bounded (or uniformly minimal) \(M\)-basis, so it is natural to ask whether this can be proved by the techniques of this paper. The author shows that it cannot; even in a Hilbert space, there is a norming \(M\)-basis without any bounded block perturbation.