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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2021
A sequence $\left \{g_k\right \}_{k=1}^{\infty }$ in a Hilbert space ${\cal H}$ has the expansion property if each $f\in \overline {\text {span}} \left \{g_k\right \}_{k=1}^{\infty }$ has a representation $f=\sum _{k=1}^{\infty } c_k g_k$ for some scalar coefficients $c_k.$ In this paper, we analyze the question whether there exist small norm-perturbations of $\left \{g_k\right \}_{k=1}^{\infty }$ which allow to represent all $f\in {\cal H};$ the answer turns out to be yes for frame sequences and Riesz sequences, but no for general basic sequences. The insight gained from the analysis is used to address a somewhat dual question, namely, whether it is possible to remove redundancy from a sequence with the expansion property via small norm-perturbations; we prove that the answer is yes for frames $\left \{g_k\right \}_{k=1}^{\infty }$ such that $g_k\to 0$ as $k\to \infty ,$ as well as for frames with finite excess. This particular question is motivated by recent progress in dynamical sampling.