Non-linear approximation by $1$-greedy bases

Abstract

The theory of greedy-like bases started in 1999 when S. V. Konyagin and V. N. Temlyakov introduced in \cite{KT} the famous Thresholding Greedy Algorithm. Since this year, different greedy-like bases appeared in the literature, as for instance: quasi-greedy, almost-greedy and greedy bases. The purpose of this paper is to introduce some new characterizations of 1-greedy bases. Concretely, given a basis $\mathcal B=(\mathbf x_n)_{n\in\mathbb N}$ in a Banach space $\mathbb X$, we know that $\mathcal B$ is $C$-greedy with $C>0$ if $\Vert f-\mathcal G_m(f)\Vert\leq C\sigma_m(f)$ for every $f\in\mathbb X$ and every $m\in\mathbb N$, where $\sigma_m(f)$ is the best $m$th error in the approximation for $f$, that is, $\sigma_m(f)=\inf_{y\in\mathbb{X} : \vert \text{supp}(y)\vert\leq m}\Vert f-y\Vert$. Here, we focus our attention when $C=1$ showing that a basis is 1-greedy if and only if $\Vert f-\mathcal G_1(f)\Vert=\sigma_1(f)$ for every $f\in\mathbb X$.