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Strong convexity of the trace of the square root of a matrix function

Any clues about how to prove that the following function is strongly-concave in $x$? (We conjecture it is $2$-strongly concave but cannot prove it. We have already proved strict concavity through ...
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Potential p-norm on tuples of positive operators

This is a follow-up to this question on p-norms of tuples of operators. Consider $\left[\begin{matrix} A \\ B \end{matrix}\right] \in B(H)^2_+$, meaning $A,B\geq 0$, and define $$ \left\|\left[\begin{...
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Perturbation of Neumann Laplacian

Consider the $N \times N$ matrix $$A_{\alpha}=\begin{pmatrix} \lambda_1 & -1 & -\alpha & 0 & \cdots & 0\\ -1 & \lambda_2 & -1 & -\alpha & \cdots & 0\\ -\alpha &...
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Existence or construction of a sequence of orthogonal matrices with three properties

This is a problem that I encountered during my research, and I have spent a good amount of time on it without success. So I am reaching out for help .... Any pointers or suggestions are appreicated! ...
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Non-linear positive map

In the paper titled "Nonlinear completely positive maps" M. D. Choi and T. Ando extended natural definition of completely positive maps ignoring the linearity condition (Aspects of positivity in ...
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A weak Perron-Frobenius property for sets of positive matrices

A popular form of the Perron-Frobenius theorem states the following result: if $A$ is a $d \times d$ real matrix all of whose entries are positive, then the spectral radius of $A$ is a simple ...
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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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Groups of operators between local unitaries and full unitaries

Consider the group $U(d_1) \otimes U(d_2)$ of "local unitary" operators acting on the complex space $\mathbb{C}^{d_1} \otimes \mathbb{C}^{d_2}$ (i.e., $U(d_1) \otimes U(d_2)$ is the group of unitary ...
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Estimates of the Frobenius norm of commutator

Let $A,B$ be two unitary matrices in $U(n)$, and $\|\cdot\|_{F}$ denote the Frobenius norm (or Hilbert Schmidt norm on the finite dimensional $M_n(\mathbb{C})$). I am looking for estimates of the ...
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Characterization of "PSD-Squared" Matrices

$\DeclareMathOperator\DNN{DNN}\DeclareMathOperator\CP{CP}$This question can be thought of as an offshoot of this MO question from a few months ago. Let $M_n(\mathbb{C})$ denote the set of $n \times n$ ...
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Method to Generate Random Mutually Orthogonal Unitary Matrices

The title says it all, I'd like to know if such a method exists to generate random mutually orthogonal unitary matrices. If so, any supplementary references would be very much obliged. Thanks again!
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Real part of eigenvalues and Laplacian

I am working on imaging and I am a bit puzzled by the behaviour of this matrix: $$A:=\left( \begin{array}{cccccc} 1 & 0 & 0 & -1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & -1 &...
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spilt the sum of singular values of matrices

Let $A_{i} \in GL(d, \mathbb{R})$ for $i=1, 2, 3.$ For $q>0$, we denote $t_{3}^{q}=\sum_{i=0}^{3} \sigma_{1}^{q}(A_{i})\sigma_{2}^{q}(A_{i})\sigma_{3}^{q}(A_{i})$, $t_{2}^{q}=\sum_{i=0}^{3} \sigma_{...
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Perturbed Gram matrix

Let $x_t \in \mathbb{S}^{d-1}$, $\forall t\in \mathbb{N}$ and let $e_1$ be the first canonical basis vector of $\mathbb{R}^d$, ie, $e_1 = (1,0,\cdots,0)$. Let us form a Gram Matrix $$\sum_{t=1}^T(x_t ...
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Lower bound on iterated matrix application

Let $n \in \mathbb Z^2$ such that the non self-adjoint weighted Laplacian is $$(\Delta u)(n)=u(n_1+1,n_2)-u(n_1-1,n_2) + i( u(n_1,n_2+1)- u(n_1,n_2-1))$$ the adjoint operator is then $$(\Delta^* u)(n)=...
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The nonlinear operator defined as the commutator of a matrix and a nonlinear operator

In my studies of applied analysis and applied linear algebra, this interesting problem and concept came up: Let us consider the space of all $ m \times n $ real matrices, and define a scalar ...
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Is the following inequality true for the norm of Moore-Penrose pseudoinverses?

Let $L$ be a real, positive semi-definite, symmetric, square matrix, with pseudoinverse $L^{+}$. It can be shown for the operator norms $||.||_{op}$ that: if $L$ is invertible and $||I - L||_{op} < ...
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Smallest eigenvalue for large kernel matrix

I am interested in the the asymptotics of the minimum eigenvalue $\lambda_n^n$ of a class of kernel matrix $P = [ K(x_i - x_j) ]_{i,j}$, with $x_i$ equally spaced in the unit cube of $\mathbb{R}^d$. ...
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Significance of Tikhonov matrix

I am looking for a tutorial on Tikhonov matrix, in the sense what it can do or it cannot do. The definition of the matrix can be obtained in the wikipedia link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Negative eigenvalue of Toeplitz Hermitian matrix?

I am working on estimation of a covariance matrix and I know that the matrix is Toeplitz. The desired matrix should not produce negative eigenvalues at all. However, sometime my estimation leads to a ...
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What are good bounds on ratios of subdeterminants?

Let $A$ be a symmetric matrix and $A_i$ be the matrix obtained from $A$ by dropping the $i^{th}$ row and column. Then what are some good bounds on the value of $\frac{det(A_i)}{det(A)}$ ? Using the ...
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Eigenvalue of product of self adjoint compact operators

Suppose A is a self adjoint $m \times m$ real matrix with eigenpairs $\{e_j, \lambda_j\}$ such that $\lambda_j > \lambda_{j + 1}$. Let $B$ be another self adjoint real $m \times m$ matrix such that ...
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Is a basis that almost diagonalizes a matrix 'close' to its eigenbasis?

Let $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be diagonalisable (over $\mathbb{C}$) with pairwise distinct eigenvalues $\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_n\in\mathbb{C}$, and suppose that $$\tag{1}S^{-1}\cdot A\cdot S = \...
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Error bounds on the expansion of square root of matrix

I'm working on a problem and was lead to trying to find an approximation for the square root of a matrix. I came across a way of doing this using holomorphic functional calculus. However, my first ...
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