Institution: | Centre de Mathématiques et Leurs Applications, 61 Avenue du Président Wilson, 94235 Cachan cedex, France Robert M. Young ; Department of Mathematics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074 |
Abstract: | A sequence of vectors in a separable Hilbert space is said to be a Schauder basis for if every element has a unique norm-convergent expansion ![\begin{displaymath}f=\sum c_nf_n.\end{displaymath}](http://www.ams.org/proc/1998-126-02/S0002-9939-98-04168-9/gif-abstract/img5.gif)
If, in addition, there exist positive constants and such that ![\begin{displaymath}A\sum|c_n|^2\le\left\|\sum c_nf_n\right\|^2\le B\sum|c_n|^2,\end{displaymath}](http://www.ams.org/proc/1998-126-02/S0002-9939-98-04168-9/gif-abstract/img8.gif)
then we call a Riesz basis. In the first half of this paper, we show that every Schauder basis for can be obtained from an orthonormal basis by means of a (possibly unbounded) one-to-one positive self adjoint operator. In the second half, we use this result to extend and clarify a remarkable theorem due to Duffin and Eachus characterizing the class of Riesz bases in Hilbert space. |