This paper is an investigation of the universal separable metric space up to isometry U discovered by Urysohn. A concrete construction of U as a metric subspace of the space C[0, 1] of functions from [0, 1] to the reals with the supremum metric is given. An answer is given to a question of Sierpiński on isometric embeddings of U in C[0, 1]. It is shown that the closed linear span of an isometri...

Let (S1,S2) be a bi-isometry, that is, pair of commuting isometries S1 and S2 on complex Hilbert space H. By the von Neumann-Wold decomposition, hyper-range H∞(S1):=∩n=0∞S1nH reduces to unitary operator. Although H∞(S1) is an invariant subspace for S2, in general, not reducing S2. We show isometry if only subspaces S2(ker⁡S1⁎) H are orthogonal. Further, we describe all bi-isometries satisfying ...

We show that as long as the restricted isometry constant δ2k < 1/2, there exist a value q0 ∈ (0, 1] such that for any q < q0, each minimizer of the nonconvex `q minimization for the sparse solution of any underdetermined linear system is the sparse solution.

We present a new bound for suprema of a special type of chaos processes indexed by a set of matrices, which is based on a chaining method. As applications we show significantly improved estimates for the restricted isometry constants of partial random circulant matrices and time-frequency structured random matrices. In both cases the required condition on the number m of rows in terms of the sp...