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Symmetric strengthening of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
In this great question by Nathaniel Johnston, and in its answers, we can learn the following remarkable inequality: For all $v,w \in \mathbb{R}^n$ we have
\begin{align*}
\|v^2\| \, \|w^2\| - \langle ...
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Almost commuting unitary matrices
Suppose that $A_1,\dots, A_k$ are unitary matrices such that any two of them can be approximated by commuting unitary matrices. i.e. for any $i$ and $j$, there are unitary matrices $A_i'$ and $A_j'$ ...
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Commuting unitaries
Is the following true:
For every unit vectors $x_1,..., x_n$, $y_1,..., y_n$ in $\mathbb{C}^k$
there exist a Hilbert space $H$, unitary operators $U_1,...,U_n$ and $V_1,...,V_n$ in $B(H)$ and unit ...
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Random products of projections: bounds on convergence rate?
The von Neumann-Halperin [vN,H] theorem shows that iterating a fixed product of projection operators converges to the projector onto the intersection subspace of the individual projectors. A good ...
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An inequality for the spectral radius of matrices used by J. Bochi
I am interested in the history of an inequality for the spectral radius of a $d\times d$ real or complex matrix, which occurs in Jairo Bochi's 2002 article Inequalities for numerical invariants of ...
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A matrix norm inequality
Suppose that $A, B$ are Hermitian positive definite matrices of the same order and $0\le p\le 1$. Using a standard approach in matrix analysis, one can show that
$\|A^{1-p}B^p\|\ge \|A\sharp_p B\|$, ...
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Analogue of Cayley Hamilton theorem for operators on Hilbert space
Is there an analogue of Cayley Hamilton theorem which holds for operators on a separable Hilbert space. Obviously the characteristic polynomial will be replaced by something else.
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A neat evaluation of an infinite matrix?
Let $M_n$ be an $n\times n$ matrix defined as
$$M_n
=\left[\frac{2i+1}{2(i+j+1)}\binom{i-1/2}i\binom{j-1/2}jx^{i+j+1}\right]_{i,j=0}^n.$$
With $I_n$ the identity matrix, consider $A_n:=I_n-M_n^2$. ...
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Is there always a complete, orthogonal set of unitary matrices?
The set of size-$n$ unitary matrices span $\Bbb C^{n \times n}$ (this can be proven nicely using polar decomposition). If we select a maximal linear subset of unitary matrices, then we have a basis ...
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Rescaling positive definite matrices to force a unit eigenvector
Hello,
Let $X'X$ be a positive definite matrix and let $\mathbf{1}$ denote the vector of ones.
I'm hoping to construct a positive, diagonal matrix $W$ such that
$$(W X'X W) \mathbf{1} = \mathbf{1}$$...
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Trouble with Jordan form of the truncated Carleman-matrix for $\sin(x)$ as size $n$ goes to infinity
I'm currently trying to get familiar with the Jordan normal form for matrices; and after some example I ask for the possible Jordan-form for the Carleman matrix for the function $f(x) = \sin(x)$ when ...
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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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Relating a Polynomial equation to the characteristic equation of a Hermitian matrix
This question arose out of mere curiosity. Given a polynomial equation and I happen to know that its roots are real (but not the roots itself). Does it mean it is the characteristic equation of a ...
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Inequality involving tensor product of orthonormal unit vectors
Let $e_1,...,e_r$ be the first $r$ standard basis of $\mathbb{R}^n, r<n$. Let $u_1,...,u_n$ be another orthonormal basis of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let $\otimes$ be the tensor product on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and ...
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Distance between subalgebras and positive elements in matrices
I repost here from stackexchange, as I was not given an answer there. (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2956530/distance-between-subalgebras-and-commutants-in-matrix-algebras)
This is a ...
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Is it true that $\lVert A\rVert \leq \lVert A^2\rVert$ for $A\in \operatorname{SL}(2, \mathbb{R})$ when $\operatorname{trace}(A)>2$?
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}\DeclareMathOperator\trace{trace}$Let $A \in \SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ and $\trace(A)>2$. Is it true that $$\lVert A\rVert \leq \lVert A^2\rVert,$$
where $\lVert \rVert$ is the ...
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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
$$
\left\|\left[\begin{...
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Diagonalization of the matrix $(1/(i+j+\rm{const}))_{i,j}$
Consider the following infinite matrix: $A_{i,j}=\frac1{i+j+\gamma}$, $0\leq i,j<\infty$, $\gamma>0$ is a constant. Is it known how to diagonalize $A$, or, say, calculate $(I+tA)^{-1}$ for ...
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Potential p-norm on tuples of operators
Consider $\left[\begin{matrix}A \\ B\end{matrix}\right] \in B(H)^2$. One can define
$$
\left\|\left[\begin{matrix}A \\ B\end{matrix}\right]\right\|_p = \| |A|^p + |B|^p\|^{1/p}.
$$
Q: Is this a norm?
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Operator norm vs spectral radius for positive matrices
I believe the following statement should be true but somehow I don't see an argument:
For every integer $d>1$ there exists a constant $C=C(d)>1$ such that whenever $A$ is a $d \times d$ matrix ...
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positive hermitian elements in $M_n(\mathbb{C})$
Elements of the set $P$ of positive hermitian $n×n$ matrices over complex numbers
have some special properties:
(i) they are closed under sum,
(ii) they are closed under multiplication by positive ...
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Characterizing invertible nonnegative matrices with bounded sums
Almost a year ago, I asked in this question about obtaining a tight bound on the sum of the entries of the inverse of a strictly positive definite matrix. Denis Serre gave a nice counterexample ...
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Perturbation of Neumann Laplacian
Consider the $N \times N$ matrix
$$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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Is this inequality involving the Frobenius norm right?
Let $A$ be a generic (or varying) square, real $ n \times n$ matrix. Let $G$ be a fixed $n \times k$ matrix, $k < n.$ Denote by $||.||_F$ the Frobenius norm.
Is it true that $||AG||_F \geq c(G) ||...
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Making Hermitian matrices almost commute
Consider two Hermitian matrices $A, B \in \mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$. I'm interested in finding another Hermitian matrix $A'$ that is close to $A$ and almost commutes with $B$. More precisely, I'd like ...
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Weak ergodicity of nonhomogenous products of 0-1 matrices
Here is a question which probably has a negative answer, but I couldn't find any literature directly on it.
Let $(A_n)$ be a sequence of rectangular 0-1 matrices (that is, the entries are restricted ...
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When does this linear matrix equation have a unique symmetric, positive definite solution?
I encountered the following matrix equation for $A, N, Q \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ and $A^T=-A$ and $N^T=-N$
$$[X,A]+N^TXN+Q = 0$$
where $Q$ is symmetric, positive definite. My final goal is to ...
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Characterization(?) of coersive(?) elements in the special linear group
Take your favorite matrix norm $\|\bullet\|$ (my favorite is the Frobenius norm $\|A\| = \sqrt{\operatorname{tr} A A^t}$). Now consider the set $S_x$ of matrices $A,$ such that
$\|A\| < x$ and $\|...
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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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Monotonicity of matrix conjugation
Let $A$ and $B$ be positive-definite matrices such that $A \le B.$
By matrix monotonicity of the root, this also implies that $A^{\alpha} \le B^{\alpha}$ for $\alpha \in [0,1].$
I am now curious under ...
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Schur product, partial order
Let $A, B$ be positive definite matrices. Then $A^r\circ B^r \le (A\circ B)^r$ for $0\le r\le 1$, where $\circ$ is Schur product. Here the inequality is in the sense of Loewner partial order.
How to ...
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A question on Grassmannian
Let $V$ be the space of $4$ by $4$ Hermitian matrices, that
is a vector space of dimension $16$ over $\mathbb{R}$. Is the uniform
measure of
$$
\left\{ W\in Gr\left(5,V\right):W \text{contains no ...
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Two minimization problems using singular value decomposition
Posted here too: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1711026/two-minimization-problems-using-singular-value-decomposition
Let $q_0, q_1:[0,1]\to \mathbb{R}^n$ be two maps whose components are $L^...
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Commutation between integrating and taking the minimal eigenvalue
Let $S = (f_{ij})_{ij}$ be a $n \times n$ real symmetric matrix, with functions $f_{ij} \in L^1(\mathbb{R}^d,\mathbb{R})$ in it. We define $\left(\int u S \right)_{ij} = \int u S_{ij}$ as the ...
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Method to Generate Random Mutually Orthogonal Unitary Matrices
The title says it all, I'd like to know if such a method exists to generate random mutually orthogonal unitary matrices. If so, any supplementary references would be very much obliged. Thanks again!
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Real part of eigenvalues and Laplacian
I am working on imaging and I am a bit puzzled by the behaviour of this matrix:
$$A:=\left(
\begin{array}{cccccc}
1 & 0 & 0 & -1 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & -1 &...
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Continuous path of unitary matrices with prescribed first column?
Consider a continuous curve $u \colon [0,1] \to \mathbb{C}^n$ where $u(t)$ is always a unit vector, $u(t)^* u(t) = 1$.
Question 1: Does there exist a continuous curve $U \colon [0,1] \to \mathbb{C}^{n ...
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Alike looking matrices imply convergence of eigenvalues?
This is a question about convergence of eigenvalues which essentially came up in studying the spectrum of St.-Liouville operators.
We want to look at matrices that agree in most of their entries and ...
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How can I prove that the negative biased triangular kernel is positive semidefinite
How can I prove that the following triangular kernel function defined in $[0, 1] \subset R^1$
$k(x, x') = (1 - 2|x-x'|)$
is a positive semidefinite function?
It turns out to be psd function when ...
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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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