Minimal sequences and the Kadison-Singer problem

The Kadison-Singer problem asks: does every pure state on the diagonal sublgebra of the C*-algebra of bounded operators on a separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space admit a unique extension? A yes answer is equivalent to several open conjectures including Feichtinger's: every bounded frame is a finite union of Riesz sequences. We consider the special case: Feichtinger's conjecture for exponentials and prove that the set of projections onto a measurable subset of the circle group of the set of exponential functions equals a union of a finite number of Reisz sequences if and only if there exists a Reisz subsequence corresponding to integers whose characteristic function is a nonzero minimal sequence.Comment: 10 pages, Theorem 1.1 was announced during conferences in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 14-20, 2009, and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 22-26, 200

A Guide to Localized Frames and Applications to Galerkin-like Representations of Operators

This chapter offers a detailed survey on intrinsically localized frames and the corresponding matrix representation of operators. We re-investigate the properties of localized frames and the associated Banach spaces in full detail. We investigate the representation of operators using localized frames in a Galerkin-type scheme. We show how the boundedness and the invertibility of matrices and operators are linked and give some sufficient and necessary conditions for the boundedness of operators between the associated Banach spaces.Comment: 32 page

Measure Functions for Frames

This paper addresses the natural question: ``How should frames be compared?'' We answer this question by quantifying the overcompleteness of all frames with the same index set. We introduce the concept of a frame measure function: a function which maps each frame to a continuous function. The comparison of these functions induces an equivalence and partial order that allows for a meaningful comparison of frames indexed by the same set. We define the ultrafilter measure function, an explicit frame measure function that we show is contained both algebraically and topologically inside all frame measure functions. We explore additional properties of frame measure functions, showing that they are additive on a large class of supersets-- those that come from so called non-expansive frames. We apply our results to the Gabor setting, computing the frame measure function of Gabor frames and establishing a new result about supersets of Gabor frames.Comment: 54 pages, 1 figure; fixed typos, reformatted reference