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Grothendieck's theorem for Bessel sequences

Aug 2026 · 1 citation · 24 references
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Abstract

We establish a sharp version of Grothendieck's theorem for Bessel sequences. Precisely, given a Bessel sequence $\{ x_j \}_{j\in\mathbb{N}}$ with Bessel bound $1$ in a Hilbert space, we show that there exists functions $\{ f_j \}_{j\in\mathbb{N}}$ belonging to the unit ball of $L^\infty([0,1])$ such that for all $j,k \in \mathbb{N}$ one has $$ \langle x_j,x_k\rangle = \int_0^1 f_j(x)\overline{f_k(x)}\,dx.$$ As an application, we give an affirmative answer to an extension problem of Olevskii: if $E \subset [0,1]$ is a Lebesgue measurable set such that $[0,1]\setminus E$ has positive measure, then every Bessel sequence in $L^2(E)$ with Bessel bound $1$ extends to an orthonormal system in $L^2([0,1])$ that is bounded by the (optimal) constant $\lambda([0,1]\setminus E)^{-1/2}$ on $[0,1]\setminus E$. A formalization of our main result in Lean 4 accompanies the paper.

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