Bourgain–Tzafriri restricted invertibility principle

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The Bourgain–Tzafriri restricted invertibility principle is a fundamental result in functional analysis and operator theory that guarantees the existence of large, well-invertible submatrices within certain classes of linear operators.

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instanceOf mathematical theorem
result in functional analysis
alsoKnownAs Bourgain–Tzafriri theorem on restricted invertibility NERFINISHED
appliesTo bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces
matrices with normalized columns under certain conditions
assumes operator with columns of comparable norm
concerns restricted invertibility of linear operators
selection of well-conditioned column subsets
conclusion there exists a large subset of columns forming a well-conditioned operator
context finite-dimensional operator theory
geometry of Banach spaces
field functional analysis
operator theory
guarantees existence of large subsets of columns with uniformly bounded condition number
existence of large well-invertible submatrices
hasGeneralization Spielman–Srivastava restricted invertibility results NERFINISHED
implies existence of a large coordinate subset on which an operator is bounded below
importance considered a fundamental tool in modern functional analysis
key ingredient in several major developments related to Kadison–Singer
inspired algorithms for column subset selection
work on spectral sparsification
involves norm estimates
probabilistic methods in analysis
singular values of linear operators
namedAfter Jean Bourgain NERFINISHED
Lior Tzafriri NERFINISHED
originallyPublishedIn a research article in the late 1980s
provedBy Jean Bourgain NERFINISHED
Lior Tzafriri NERFINISHED
provides lower bounds on singular values of selected submatrices
quantitative bounds on size of invertible submatrices
relatedTo Kadison–Singer problem NERFINISHED
Weaver’s conjecture NERFINISHED
paving conjecture NERFINISHED
strengthens earlier results on invertibility of submatrices
typeOf restricted invertibility theorem NERFINISHED
typicalFormulation for an operator with normalized columns there is a large subset of columns on which the operator is bounded below by a universal constant
usedIn Banach space theory NERFINISHED
compressed sensing
discrepancy theory
frame theory
local theory of Banach spaces
numerical linear algebra
sparse approximation
yearProved 1987

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