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Compressed sensing reconstructs a sparse vector, or an approximately sparse one, from fewer linear measurements than its ambient dimension. Basis pursuit replaces counting nonzero coordinates by convex ${\ell }^1$ minimization. A null space property characterizes exact uniform recovery, while a robust null space property controls errors from noise and nonsparse tails.

Under the usual definition, the null space property relative to $S$ is $\Vert h_S{\Vert }_1<\Vert h_{S^c}{\Vert }_1$ for every nonzero $h\in \ker A$. It characterizes recovery by basis pursuit of every vector supported in $S$. Indeed, if it holds, then for any such $x_0$ and any nonzero $h\in \ker A$,Conversely, failure for some $h$ makes $x_0=-h_S$ and $z=h_{S^c}$ feasible with the same measurements and $\Vert z{\Vert }_1\le \Vert x_0{\Vert }_1$. ThusFor the single fixed vector in the printing, necessity is false with that definition. For example,has $\ker A=\mathrm{span}\{(1,1,1)\}$. Along its feasible line, the objective is $|1+t|+|-1+t|+|t|$, uniquely minimized at $t=0$, although the null space property would require $2<1$.

The correct fixed-sign null space condition isSufficiency follows from the supporting-line inequality for the absolute value. Necessity follows by considering $x_0\pm th$ for small positive $t$, when all signs on $S$ remain unchanged: a nonpositive directional increase gives either a decrease or another minimizer. If “relative to $S$” was intended to include these signs, this is the precise condition needed.