Some theoretical results on the Grouped Variables Lasso

We consider the linear regression model with Gaussian error. We estimate the unknown parameters by a procedure inspired by the Group Lasso estimator introduced in [22]. We show that this estimator satisfies a sparsity inequality, i.e., a bound in terms of the number of non-zero components of the oracle regression vector. We prove that this bound is better, in some cases, than the one achieved by the Lasso and the Dantzig selector.