Greedy bases in variable Lebesgue spaces (Q258067)

Let \(X\) be a Banach space and let \(\{b_j\}\) be a Schauder basis for \(X\). Denote by \(\Sigma_N\) the set of all \(x\in X\) with at most \(N\) non-zero coefficients in their basis representation \(x=\sum_{j=1}^{\infty}\lambda_jb_j\). Given \(x\in X\) reorder the basis elements so that \[ \|\lambda_{j_1}b_{j_1}\|\geq\|\lambda_{j_2}b_{j_2}\|\geq\|\lambda_{j_3}b_{j_3}\|\geq\dots \] and then we set \[ G_N(x)=\sum_{k=1}^N\lambda_{j_k}b_{j_k}. \] A basis is greedy if there exists \(C>1\) such that, for all \(x\in X\) and \(N\), \[ \|x - G_N(x)\|\leq C\inf_{y\in\Sigma_N}\|x - y\|. \] A basis is democratic if given any two index sets \(\Gamma\), \(\Gamma'\), \(\mathrm{card}(\Gamma)=\mathrm{card}(\Gamma')\), \[ \left\|\sum_{j\in\Gamma}\frac{b_j}{\|b_j\|}\right\|\approx\left\|\sum_{j\in\Gamma'}\frac{b_j}{\|b_j\|}\right\|. \] \textit{S. V. Konyagin} and \textit{V. N. Temlyakov} [East J. Approx. 5, No. 3, 365--379 (1999; Zbl 1084.46509)] characterized greedy bases as those which are unconditional and democratic. Given an exponent function \(p(\cdot)\), let \(L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) denote the variable Lebesgue space on \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Many wavelet bases form unconditional bases on the variable Lebesgue spaces; however, unless \(p(\cdot)=p\) is constant, they are never democratic in \(L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb{R}^n)\). The authors quantify the failure of democracy by computing precisely the right and left democracy functions of admissible wavelet bases in \(L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb{R}^n)\). As an application Lebesgue typy inequalities for these wavelet bases are obtained. It is shown also that this techniques can be easily modified to prove analogous results for weighted variable Lebesgue spaces and variable exponent Triebel-Lizorkin spaces.