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The expected square of the determinant of a random row stochastic matrix
In this
question Anthony Quas asks about the expected absolute value of
the determinant of an $n\times n$ row stochastic matrix $A$, where
the rows are independently selected from the uniform ...
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Determinant of a random row stochastic matrix
Does anyone know anything about the determinant of a random $n\times n$ row stochastic matrix? What I have in mind is that the rows are independently selected from the uniform distribution on the unit ...
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Determinant of arbitrary sum of positive semidefinite hermitian matrices
Suppose that $A_i$, $i=1,\ldots,m$ are positive semidefinite Hermitian $n\times n$ matrices, with $a_i^{(j)}$ being the $j$-th eigenvalue of $A_i$. Let $A_0=I$.
QUESTION. Can we extend the result ...
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Homogeneous polynomials, mixed determinants, positive definiteness
Are there $n\times n$ real matrices $A_{1}, \ldots, A_{n}$ such that the $n$-homogeneous polynomial
$$
f(x_{1}, \ldots, x_{n}) = \det(x_{1} A_{1}+\cdots +x_{n} A_{n})
$$
never vanishes on $\...
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Some Hankel Determinants
After invoking a recursion relation for Hankel determinants in my answer to a (mostly unrelated) question, I started wondering what else I could use this recursion for, and stumbled upon some results ...
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Is there an explicit formula for the hessian of "Determinant"?
Let $f: G= \mbox{GL}(n,\mathbb{R}) \to \mathbb{R}$ be the determinant function.
Then $\mbox{Hess} (f)$ is a two linear map on $M_{n}(\mathbb{R})\simeq T_{e}(G)$ where $e$ is the neutral element of $G$,...
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The effect of channel error on the determinant of transmitted matrix
Assume the following matrix
$$
E:=\left(
\begin{array}{ccccc}
e_1 & e_2 & \cdots & e_{p-1} & e_{p}\\
e_{p+1} & e_{p+2} & \cdots & e_{2p-1} & e_{2p} \\
\...
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Determinant of a specific $4 \times 4$ symmetric matrix
In a recent research work, I have come across the following nice identity, where the entries $a,b,x$ belong to an arbitrary commutative unital ring:
$$\begin{vmatrix}
2 & a & b & ab-x \\
...
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How to find a closed form of following matrix's determinant [closed]
I wanna find a closed form of determinant of the following matrix
$$A(n) =
\begin{pmatrix}
B_{1} & B_{2} & \cdots & B_{n} & 1 \\
B_{n} & B_{1} & \cdots & B_{n-1} &...
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Determinant of a certain Vandermonde matrix
Is there a closed form expression for the determinant of the $n\times n$ Vandermonde-type matrix
$$A = \left(\begin{array}{}
1&g_1 & x_1&g_1 x_1 & x_1^2&g_1 x_1^2 & \cdots &...
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Inverse Hadamard determinant inequality
As far as I remembered there is an inverse Hadamard inequality for the determinant of the form
$$
|D|>\prod_j \sqrt{(a_{jj}^2-\sum_{i\neq j}a_{ij}^2)}
$$
providing all values in $(\cdot)>0$.
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How to prove this determinant is positive-II?
Question: Given an arbitrary number of real matrices of the form $ A_i=
\biggl(\begin{matrix}
C_i+E_i & B_i \\
B_i^T & D_i-F_i
\end{matrix} \biggr)
$, where $B_i$ is an arbitrary $n\times n$ ...
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On a determinantal equality
In my study, I come across the following curious equality, which I do not know a proof yet (so I am asking it here).
Let $k$, $l\in \Bbb Z$ be fixed, $m$ --- the size of the below matrix $M$ --- is ...
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generalizations of Vandermonde matrix to high dimensions
Let $x_1,x_2,\cdots,x_n\in\mathbb{R} $ or $\mathbb{C}$. By the non-degeneracy of Vandermonde matrix
the maps
$$
f: \mathbb{R}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}^n,$$ $$
x\longmapsto (1,x,x^2,\cdots,x^{n-1})...
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Exchange determinant and integral of a matrix-valued function
Assume $A(x)=(a_{ij}(x))_{k\times k}$ is a Hermitian matrix function on some manifold $M$, is there any inequality relates the integral of its determinant $\int_M \det(A)$ and the determinant of its ...
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How the idea of adjugate matrix has been designed? [closed]
I can understand the adjugate matrix and the motivation of that to find the inverse, but I can't see how this idea was invented by mathematicians. It's just brilliance or someone understand how the ...
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Expected size of determinant of $AA^T$ for non-square random $A$
If $A$ is chosen uniformly at random over all possible $m \times n$ (0,1)-matrices, what is the expected size of the absolute value of the determinant of $AA^T$. We can assume $m < n$ and all ...
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Determinant of block tridiagonal matrices
Is there a formula to compute the determinant of block tridiagonal matrices when the determinants of the involved matrices are known?
In particular, I am interested in the case
$$A = \begin{pmatrix} ...
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Find inverse and determinant of a symmetric matrix - for a maximum-likelihood estimation
Evaluate the determinant $\det \Omega $ and find the inverse matrix $\Omega^{-1}$ of:
$$\Omega = \begin{bmatrix} \beta_1^2(1+\theta_1^2) & \beta_1 \beta_2 & ... & \beta_1 \beta_{k-1} &...
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Determinant of a Certain Positive-Definite Block Matrix
Is there a lower bound for the determinant or minimum eigenvalue of the following $d$ by $d$ matrix in terms of $d$?
$$\Gamma=\left( {\begin{array}{cc}
I & B \\
B^{*} & I \\
\end{array} ...
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Partial Vandermonde circulant determinant expression
Consider following partial Vandermonde type, circulant matrix
$\begin{bmatrix}
x_1 & x_2 & 0 & \dots & 0 & x_n\\
x_1^2 & x_2^2 & x_3^2 & \dots & 0 & 0\\
\vdots ...
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Finding a "special" non singular submatrix
Given a square integer matrix $A \in M_n(Z)$ and two subsets $I, J \subset \{ 1, \ldots, n\}$, we define $A_{I,J}$ as the sub-matrix of $A$ containing the rows (resp. columns) whose index is in $I$ (...
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Determinant of some covariance matrix (Gaussian kernel process)
Let $x_1,\dots,x_p$ be $p$ points in $\mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 2$) with $x_1=0$. Consider the symmetric matrix $M(x)=(m_{ij}(x))_{1\leq i,j\leq p}$ where $m_{ij}(x) = \exp(-\frac{1}{2}\Vert x_i - x_j\...
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Is there a way to simplify this apparently huge characteristic polynomial calculation?
Say I am given the $0/1$ adjacency matrix of an undirected graph. Also I am given a representation $\rho$ of some group $G$ and an orientation has been arbitrarily chosen along each edge. Let $E^{...
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How to prove this determinant is positive?
Given matrices
$$A_i= \biggl(\begin{matrix}
0 & B_i \\
B_i^T & 0
\end{matrix} \biggr)$$
where $B_i$ are real matrices and $i=1,2,\ldots,N$, how to prove the following?
$$\det \big( I + e^...
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An (open?) problem about a sequence of nested principal sub-matrices and their determinants
Problem: Let $A$ be a $n \times n$ integer matrix, $\det(A) = \pm 1$. Under which conditions there exist a nested sequence of principal submatrices of size $n$ such that they all have determinant $\pm ...
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Geometric interpretation of the Desnanot–Jacobi Identity
Given a square $n\times n$ matrix $M$, let $M_i^j$ denote the $(n-1)\times(n-1)$ matrix obtained from M by omitting the $i$-th row and $j$-th column of $M$.
The Desnanot–Jacobi Identity states
$$\det(...
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How to calculate one Cauchy type determinant
As we know, a Cauchy determinant of size n admits the following explicit formula:
$$\det \left(\frac{1}{x _i+y _j}\right) _{1\le i,j \le n}=\frac{\prod _{1\le i < j\le n} (x _j-x _i)(y _j-y _i)}{\...
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Is there a method to simultaneously block-diagonalize a set of group matrices?
Assume that you are explicitly given the representation matrices of a group.
How does one go about finding that common basis which will find the irreducible components of all of them simultaneously?
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Are these particular kinds of matrices well known?
Given two positive integers $n$ and $a \leq \frac{n}{2}$ consider a $n \times n$ matrix $A$ such that,
all the diagonal entries are either $a$ or $a+1$
all the non-zero off-diagonal entries are $\pm ...
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About adding a negative definite rank-1 matrix to a symmetric matrix
If $B$ is a symmetric matrix then how do its eigenvalues compare to the eigenvalues of $B - vv^T$? ( where $v$ is a vector of the same dimension as $B$)
I guess that the eigenvalues of $B - vv^T$ ...
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Are there good ways of relating a minor to the full determinant?
Say $A$ is a $(n-1)\times (n-1)$ matrix and we augment it by a $n^{th}$ row and a column and get a $n \times n$ matrix $B$. Is there a nice way to relate $det(B)$ and $det(A)$ and the added row and ...
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Proving that the kernel of this matrix is of dimension 2
(Edit : see at the bottom of the question for an additional surprising possible hint.)
Using a computational software program, I found that the kernel of the following matrix is of dimension 2 when $...
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Does this permanent have a closed form?
What is the closed form of this permanent? (similar to the Cauchy determinant)
\begin{aligned}
f(z_1,z_2,\cdots,z_N,w_1,w_2,\cdots,w_N)=\left[
\small{\begin{matrix}
\frac{1}{(z_1-w_1)^2} && \...
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Generalized Cauchy-Binet sum over a fixed subset of indices
I originally posted this on math.stackexchange, but it quickly got buried. I removed it not too long after, thinking of rewriting it for MO, but I didn’t have a chance to post it until now. Apologies ...
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MInors related problem [closed]
A matrix $A$ has $m$ rows and $n$ colums, such that $m \leq n$. We know that each row of $A$ has the norm $1$ (the norm of an element $x=(x_1,x_2,...,x_n) \in \mathbb{R}^n$ is $||x||=\sqrt{x_1^2+x_2^2+...
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A class of matrix determinants between Wronskians and Vandermondes
Update: see below
Let $M$ be an $n\times n$ matrix that's constructed as follows. Construct the right-most column of $M$ as $[\alpha_1(x_1),\cdots,\alpha_n(x_n)]^T$ for some class of fixed functions $...
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Are bounds known for the maximum determinant of a (0,1)-matrix of specified size and with a specifed number of 1s?
The problems of determining the maximum determinant of an $n \times n$ $(0,1)$-matrix and the spectral problem of determining exactly which other determinants can possibly occur are both reasonably ...
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Determinant inequality involving Hermitian, positive definite matrices
Let $A,B,C\in M_{n}(\mathbb C)$ be Hermitian and positive-definite matrices such that $A+B+C=I_{n}$.
Show that
$$\det\left(6(A^3+B^3+C^3)+I_{n}\right)\ge 5^n\det(A^2+B^2+C^2)$$
This question has been ...
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Determinant of a $k \times k$ block matrix
Consider the $k \times k$ block matrix:
$$C = \left(\begin{array}{ccccc} A & B & B & \cdots & B \\ B & A & B &\cdots & B \\ \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \...
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Factor a sum of products of cofactors
Let $M$ be any $n\times n$ matrix.
We define the usual cofactors: $C_{i,j}$ is $(-1)^{i+j}$ times the determinant of the submatrix obtained by deleting row $i$ and column $j$ of $M$.
We can write ...
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Why does this antisymmetric product factor out a determinant?
Consider a generic $n \times n$ matrix $M$.
Define the $(n-1) \times n$ matrix $M_q$ to be $M$ with the $q$th row omitted, and assume that $M_q$ possesses a right inverse, $R_q$:
$$R_q = M_q^T (M_q ...
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Number of Matrices with bounded determinant
Here's my question:
Let $k,B,C$ be positive integers such that $B<C$. Can you give an upper bound for the number of $k\times k$ integer matrices having entries bounded in modulus by $B$ having ...
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Determinant of a sum of two Hankel matrices [closed]
First version: Let $A$ and $B$ be (complex) Hankel matrix. Is it true that $\det (A+B)\neq 0$ if $\det A=0$ and $\det B\neq0$? No.
Reformulating: For which $B$ is it true that $\det (A+B)\neq 0$ if $\...
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range of the difference-of-two-qubit-$4 \times 4$-density-matrix-determinants
The determinant of a two-qubit $4 \times 4$ density matrix--that is, a Hermitian, nonnegative definite matrix with unit trace--lies between $0$ and $(\frac{1}{2})^8$. (A "pure state" has determinant ...
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Determinant of $V^* V$ where $V$ is rectangular Vandermonde matrix with nodes on unit circle
Let $z_{1},\dots,z_{k}$
be distinct complex numbers with $\left|z_{j}\right|=1,\;j=1,\dots,k$. For any natural $N\geqslant k$
consider the rectangular Vandermonde matrix
$$
V_{N}=\begin{pmatrix}1 &...
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A determinant problem with symmetric PSD matrices
Suppose we have a a set of matrices in the complex field of the form $a_iv_iv_i^H$ for $i=\{1,\dots,n\}$ where $a_i$ are constant positive real scalars and $v_i$ are constant complex valued finite ...
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Given a correlation matrix $B$. What correlation matrix A (maximizes / minimizes) the following: det(A+B)
Given correlation matrix $B$ (positive semi-definite with ones in the diagonal).
1)Find the correlation matrix $A$ which maximizes $\det\left(A+B\right)$.
2)Find the correlation matrix $A$ which ...
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On matrices in linear forms with vanishing determinant
This is a cross-post from my original question at math.se. I decided to post here because it seems more difficult than I originally thought.
Let $R=\mathbb C[x_1,\ldots,x_r]$ be a polynomial ring. ...
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Is this a metric on the Grassmannian Manifold?
Let $m>n$ and consider the Set
$$S_{m,n}=\{A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}\lvert A^TA=I_n \}.$$
Does the function $d\colon S_{m,n} \times S_{m,n} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ defined by
$$d(A,B)=\sqrt{1-\...
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