Let $\Theta :={\theta }_I^e:e\in E,I\in D$ be a decomposition system for $L₂\left({ℝ}^d\right)$ indexed over D, the set of dyadic cubes in ${ℝ}^d$, and a finite set E, and let $\Theta ̃:=\Theta {̃}_I^e:e\in E,I\in D$ be the corresponding dual functionals. That is, for every $f\in L₂\left({ℝ}^d\right)$, $f={\sum }_{e\in E}{\sum }_{I\in D}⟨f,\Theta {̃}_I^e⟩{\theta }_I^e$. We study sufficient conditions on Θ,Θ̃ so that they constitute a decomposition system for Triebel-Lizorkin and Besov spaces. Moreover, these conditions allow us to characterize the membership of a distribution f in these spaces by the size of the coefficients $⟨f,\Theta {̃}_I^e⟩$, e ∈ E, I ∈ D. Typical examples of such decomposition systems...

Given a finite set X⊆ ℝ we characterize the diagonals of self-adjoint operators with spectrum X. Our result extends the Schur-Horn theorem from a finite-dimensional setting to an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space analogous to Kadison's theorem for orthogonal projections (2002) and the second author's result for operators with three-point spectrum (2013).

The paper is a continuation of our study of dimension functions of orthonormal wavelets on the real line with dyadic dilations. The main result of Section 2 is Theorem 2.8 which provides an explicit reconstruction of the underlying generalized multiresolution analysis for any MSF wavelet. In Section 3 we reobtain a result of Bownik, Rzeszotnik and Speegle which states that for each dimension function D there exists an MSF wavelet whose dimension function coincides with D. Our method provides a completely...

We study atomic decompositions and their relationship with duality and reflexivity of Banach spaces. To this end, we extend the concepts of "shrinking" and "boundedly complete" Schauder basis to the atomic decomposition framework. This allows us to answer a basic duality question: when an atomic decomposition for a Banach space generates, by duality, an atomic decomposition for its dual space. We also characterize the reflexivity of a Banach space in terms of properties of its atomic decompositions....