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Inequality between product of companion matrices and power of Pisot number

Let $d\geqslant 2$ be an integer and consider a convergent sequence of "companion" matrices $$A_k := \begin{pmatrix} a_{k,1} & a_{k,2} & \cdots & a_{k,d} \\\ & ...
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How to solve for bounds restricting ${\Sigma}$ to symmetric-positive-semi-definiteness?

Scenario I have a equation for a covariance matrix ${\Sigma}$ where everything but a vector of correlations is known aka $x=(x_{1}, \dots, x_{D})$ for $x_{i}\in [-1, 1]$. Problem I know that ${x}$ ...
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Minimum distance of a symmetric matrix to diagonal matrices

Let $A=(a_{ij})$ be an arbitrary $n \times n$ real symmetric matrix and $n\geq 2$. Let $\| \cdot \|$ denote the operator $2$-norm or equivalently the maximum absolute value of eigenvalues for ...
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Gershgorin's 2nd theorem (disjoint circles): elementary proof?

Let $A \in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ be a complex matrix. We let $a_{i,j}$ be the $\left(i,j\right)$-th entry of $A$ for all $i, j \in \left[n\right]$ (where $\left[n\right]$ denotes $\left\{1,2,\ldots,...
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Approximation bounds for matrix multiplication

$\DeclareMathOperator{\op}{\mathrm{op}}$Since matrix multiplication is continuous, I expect that if $A_n\to A\in \mathrm{Mat}_{d\times d}(\mathbb{R})$ for the operator-norm and if $x_n\to x$ in $\...
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Matrix inequality : trace of exponential of Hermitian matrix

I want to know whether the following inequality holds or not. \begin{align} (\mathrm{Tr}\exp[(A+B)/2])^2\leq(\mathrm{Tr}\exp A)(\mathrm{Tr}\exp B)\tag{1} \end{align} where $A, B$ are Hermitian ...
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Inequality for $AB + BA$ when $A,B\geq0$, reference request

Let $A,B\geq0$ be positive semidefinite matrices of arbitrary size $n\times n$. Denote by $\alpha$ and $\beta$ their largest eigenvalues. It is well-known that the eigenvalues of the expression $AB +...
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Case of equality in entrywise spectral radius bound

Let $A,B$ denote square matrices such that $\lvert A_{ij}\rvert\le B_{ij}$ for all $i,j$, and denote the spectral radius by $\rho$. From the Gelfand spectral radius formula it is easy to see that $$\...
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A curious determinantal inequality I

Let $A, B$ be Hermitian matrices. Does the following hold? $$\det(A^{2}+B^{2}+|AB+BA|)\leq \det(A^{2}+B^{2}+|AB|+|BA|)$$ As usual, $|X|=(X^*X)^{1/2}$. Clearly, quantities on both sides are no less ...
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Quantum inspired matrix inequality

While mimicking the union bound in quantum systems, we land on the following conjecture but don't know how to prove this. Given any complex-valued $n\times m$ matrix $A$. A sub-matrix of $A$ is ...
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Lipschitz property of matrix function only depending on singular values

Let $f$ be a function from $\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ such that there exists another symmetric function $g$ (invariant under permutation of coordinates) from $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ to $\mathbb{...
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An inequality for matrix norms

Working on a problem in combinatorics I come up with the following inequality on matrix norms, which I checked it also numerically: Let $A=(a_{ij})$ be a real symmetric $n\times n$ matrix with ...
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Well known matrix inequality?

I suspect that the following matrix inequality is well known, but I can't find a reference or proof: Given $n \times n$ symmetric matrices $A,B$ such that $I_n \leq A,B$, is the following true? $${...
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An upper bound for a vector with given norm 1 and norm 2

Suppose $X = (x_1, \ldots , x_n)$ is given and we know that $x_i$'s are nonnegative, $\sum_{i=1}^n x_i = n$ and $\sum_{i=1}^n x_i^2 = m $. Just by this information, is it possible to find a vector ...
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A minimal eigenvalue inequality

Suppose $A$ is an $n\times n$ real symmetric positive definite matrix. Let $A^{(-1)}_{i,j}$ be the $n\times n$ matrix the entries $(i,i),\,(i,j),\,(j,i),\,(j,j)$ of which equal to the corresponding ...
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A singular value-eigenvalue inequality

Singular value or eigenvalue problems lie at the center of matrix analysis. One classical result is $$\lambda_{j}(X^{*}X+Y^{*}Y)\geq 2\sigma_j(XY^*)$$ for $j \in \{1, \ldots, n\}$, where $\lambda_j(\...
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A simple but curious determinantal inequality

Let $A$ and $B$ be $n\times n$ Hermitian positive definite matrices and $k>0$ real. Then $A^k$ is well-defined and experimentally, we have $$\det(A^k+BABA^{-1})\geqslant \det(A^k+BA^{-1}BA),$$or ...
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A matrix between vectors, and inequality!

I have an inequality as follows $$s^T\phi\leq -|s|^TA$$ where $s$, $\phi$ and $A$ are vectors with appropriate dimensions. I want to prove that this inequality holds for the following too $$s^TM\...
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Lower bound on the sum of singular values for a sum of Hermitian matrices

Denote the eigenvalues of an $n\times n$ matrix $\mathbf{X}$ by $\lambda_i(\mathbf{X})$ and its singular values by $\sigma_i(\mathbf{X})$, $i=1,\ldots,n$. When $\mathbf{X}$ is Hermitian, we know that $...
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A curious determinantal inequality

In my study, I come across the following curious inequality, which I do not know a proof yet (so I am asking it here). Let $A, B$ be $n\times n$ (Hermitian) positive definite matrices. It is very ...
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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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Reverse Minkowski (and related) Determinant Inequalities

For positive semidefinite matrices $A,B,C \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$, the following inequalities are well known: $$(\det(A+B))^{1/n} \geq (\det A)^{1/n} + (\det B)^{1/n} $$ and $$\det(A+B+C) + \...
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Upper bound of the largest eigenvalue of a PSD block matrix in terms of blocks

Let $\mathbf A=\left[\begin{matrix}\mathbf A_{11}&\mathbf A_{12}\\ \mathbf A_{21}&\mathbf A_{22}\end{matrix}\right]$ be a positive semi-definite matrix, $\mathbf A_{ij}\in\mathbb C^{n\times n}...
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Weyl-type inequality for non-Hermitian matrices?

What is the weakest known condition under which a Weyl-type eigenvalue perturbation inequality holds? Does some analogue hold for normal matrices, for example?
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Which ordering of factors is needed to obtain this kind of determinantal inequalities?

Let $A$ and $B$ be $n\times n$ Hermitian positive definite matrices. The curious determinantal inequality given here, which can be stated as $$\det (A^{4}+ ABBA+BAAB+B^{4})\ge\det(A^{4}+ AABB+BBAA+B^{...
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Hlawka inequality for determinants of positive definite matrices

It is mentioned here that if $A, B, C\in M_{n}(\mathbb C)$ are positive semidefinite, then $$\det (A+B+C)+\det C\ge \det (A+C)+\det (B+C)$$ (quoted from this article) and the special case ($C=\bf 0$) $...
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Bounds on Hilbert-Schmidt norm of difference of products of matrices

I suspect the following is well-known, but don't know of a reference (and it is not close to the area I normally work in). I have two sequences of matrices $Q_{1},\ldots,Q_{k}$ and $R_{1},\ldots,R_{k}...
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Bounding the positive semi-definite matrix with its block diagonal matrix [closed]

Can we bound $\mathbf{A}$ with $\mathbf{A^*}$ as ${\bf{A}} \preceq {{\bf{A}}^*}$ where \begin{equation} {\bf{A}} = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {{{\bf{A}}_{11}}}&{...}&{{{\bf{A}}_{1N}}}\\ ...