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An Elementary Proof of the Restricted Invertibility Theorem

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November 9, 2010
Keywords:
  • Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics (CSDM)
Abstract
We give an elementary proof of a generalization of Bourgain and Tzafriri's Restricted Invertibility Theorem, which says roughly that any matrix with columns of unit length and bounded operator norm has a large coordinate subspace on which it is well-invertible. Our proof gives the tightest known form of this result, is constructive, and provides a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for finding the desired subspace.