Coordinate systems and distributional embeddings in Bourgain-Rosenthal-Schechtman spaces: a framework for operator reduction

Abstract

For every $1\leq \alpha<\omega_1$, we construct an explicit unconditional finite-dimensional decomposition (FDD) $(X_\lambda)_{\lambda\in\mathcal{T}_\alpha}$ of the Bourgain-Rosenthal-Schechtman space $R_\alpha^{p,0}$ by blocking its standard martingale difference sequence (MDS) basis. This FDD has strong reproducing properties and supports a theory of distributional representations between the spaces $R_\alpha^{p,0}$, $1\leq \alpha<\omega_1$. We use this framework to prove an approximate orthogonal reduction: every bounded linear operator on a limit space $R_\alpha^{p,0}$ is, via a distributional embedding and up to arbitrary precision, reduced to a scalar FDD-diagonal operator. As a consequence, the standard MDS bases of the limit spaces $R_\alpha^{p,0}$ satisfy the factorization property.