It is known that Gabor expansions do not converge unconditionally in $L^p$ and that $L^p$ cannot be characterized in terms of the magnitudes of Gabor coefficients. By using a combination of Littlewood-Paley and Gabor theory, we show that $L^p$ can nevertheless be characterized in terms of Gabor expansions, and that the partial sums of Gabor expansions converge in $L^p$-norm.

A separable Banach space X contains ${\ell }_1$ isomorphically if and only if X has a bounded fundamental total $w{c}_0*$-stable biorthogonal system. The dual of a separable Banach space X fails the Schur property if and only if X has a bounded fundamental total $w{c}_0*$-biorthogonal system.

We study nonlinear m-term approximation in a Banach space with regard to a basis. It is known that in the case of a greedy basis (like the Haar basis in $L_p\left([0,1]\right)$, 1 < p < ∞) a greedy type algorithm realizes nearly best m-term approximation for any individual function. In this paper we generalize this result in two directions. First, instead of a greedy algorithm we consider a weak greedy algorithm. Second, we study in detail unconditional nongreedy bases (like the multivariate Haar basis ${}^d=\times ...\times$ in $L_p\left({[0,1]}^d\right)$,...