A functional characterization of almost greedy and partially greedy bases

Abstract: In 2003, S. J. Dilworth et al. ([8]) introduced the notion of almost-greedy (resp. partially-greedy) bases. These bases were characterized in terms of quasi-greediness and democracy (resp. conservativeness). In this paper we will show a new functional characterization of these type of bases in general Banach spaces following the spirit of the characterization of greediness proved in [5].