The definition of dual fusion frame presents technical problems related to the domain of the synthesis operator. The notion commonly used is the analogue to the canonical dual frame. Here a new concept of dual is studied in infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert spaces. It extends the commonly used notion and overcomes these technical difficulties. We show that with this definition in many cases dual fusion frames behave similar to dual frames. We present examples of non-canonical dual fusion frames.Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 42C15; Secondary 42C40, 46C99, 41A65.

A new notion of dual fusion frame has been recently introduced by the authors. In this article that notion is further motivated and it is shown that it is suitable to deal with questions posed in a finite-dimensional real or complex Hilbert space, reinforcing the idea that this concept of duality solves the question about an appropriate definition of dual fusion frames. It is shown that for overcomplete fusion frames there always exist duals different from the canonical one. Conditions that assure the uniqueness of duals are given. The relation of dual fusion frame systems with dual frames and dual projective reconstruction systems is established. Optimal dual fusion frames for the reconstruction in case of erasures of subspaces, and optimal dual fusion frame systems for the reconstruction in case of erasures of local frame vectors are determined. Examples that illustrate the obtained results are exhibited

We consider perturbation of frames and frame sequences in a Hilbert space H. It is known that small perturbations of a frame give rise to another frame. We show that the canonical dual of the perturbed sequence is a perturbation of the canonical dual of the original one and estimate the error in the approximation of functions belonging to the perturbed space. We then construct perturbations of irregular translates of a bandlimited function in L 2 (R d ). We give conditions for the perturbed sequence to inherit the property of being Riesz or frame sequence. For this case we again calculate the error in the approximation of functions that belong to the perturbed space and compare it with our previous estimation error for general Hilbert spaces.