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Consequences of eigenvector-eigenvalue formula found by studying neutrinos
This article describes the discovery by three physicists, Stephen Parke of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Xining Zhang of the University of Chicago, and Peter Denton of Brookhaven National ...
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Transformations preserving the number of distinct eigenvalues
Let $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be an $n\times n$ symmetric, invertible matrix with nonnegative real entries, $\mathbf{1}$ be the all one $n$-dimensional vector, and $\mathrm{diag}(v)$, $v=[v_1,v_2,\...
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On approximate simultaneous diagonalization
It is well known that two $n\times n$ symmetric positive semidefinite matrices $A$, $B$ such that $AB=0$ are simultaneously diagonalizable.
My question is related to the existence of a specific ...
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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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Does the Perron vector maximize $x^TAx$ in the simplex?
Let $\mathbf{A}$ be any $n\times n$ symmetric positive matrix ($A_{ij}>0$). It is easy to show that the solution to the following optimization problem
\begin{align}
\max_{\mathbf{x}}~~\mathbf{x^...
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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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Hadamard $\ell_2$ sum of two symmetric positive semidefinite matrices
This is a follow-up question to this and this.
Let $A=(a_{ij})$ and $B=(b_{ij})$ be symmetric positive semidefinite $n\times n$ matrices such that all $a_{ij}\geq 0$, $b_{ij}\geq 0$ and $a_{ii}=b_{ii}...
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Hadamard $\ell_p$ sum of two symmetric positive semidefinite matrices: follow-up
I asked the following question here: "Does there exist $p>1$ such that for all $n\geq 2$, if $(a_{ij})$ and $(b_{ij})$ are symmetric positive semidefinite $n\times n$ matrices and $a_{ij}, b_{ij}\...
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Hadamard $\ell_p$ sum of two symmetric positive semidefinite matrices
Does there exist $p>1$ such that for all $n\geq 2$, if $(a_{ij})$ and $(b_{ij})$ are symmetric positive semidefinite $n\times n$ matrices and $a_{ij}, b_{ij}\geq 0$ then $\bigl(\|(a_{ij},b_{ij})\|...
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Best orthogonal approximation of rank 1 matrix
Let $X=\lambda_0u_0v_0^T\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be a rank 1 matrix where $\lambda_0\in\mathbb{R}$, $u_0,v_0$ are of unit Euclidean norm. What is the solution of the following problem?
$$\hat{X}=\...
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Lipschitz property of matrix function only depending on singular values
Let $f$ be a function from $\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ such that there exists another symmetric function $g$ (invariant under permutation of coordinates) from $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ to $\mathbb{...
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How do I test two square matrices are transpose to each other if only the column vector summations are known?
Given two secret square matrices, say $\left( {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}
{{a_{11}}}&{{a_{12}}}&{{a_{13}}}\\
{{a_{21}}}&{{a_{22}}}&{{a_{23}}}\\
{{a_{31}}}&{{a_{32}}}&{{a_{33}}}
\...
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Representation of $4\times4$ matrices in the form of $\sum B_i\otimes C_i$
Every matrix $A\in M_4(\mathbb{R})$
can be represented in the form of $$A=\sum_{i=1}^{n(A)} B_i\otimes C_i$$ for $B_i,C_i\in M_2(\mathbb{R})$.
What is the least uniform upper bound $M$ for such $n(A)$...
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Solve a linear matrix ODE involving symmetric blocks
Let $P \in \mathbb R^{n \times n}$ be a symmetric positive definite matrix with eigenvalues denoted by $\lambda_i$ and corresponding eigenvectors denoted by $v_i$. For each $j \in \{1, 2, 3, 4\}$, let ...
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Relation between Frobenius norm, infinity norm and sum of maxima
Let $A$ be a sequence of $n \times n$ matrices so that the Frobenius norm squared satisfies $\|A\|_F^2 \simeq n$ and the infinity norm squared is $\|A\|_{\infty}^2 = 1$. Is the following true?
$$\...
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More mysterious properties of Gram matrix
This is another question related to the mysterious properties of the Gram matrix in dimension $4$. Here's the previous question.
The following fact could be extracted from 0402087:
For any $a_i\...
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Relationship between $2 \to 2$ norm and $\infty \to 2$ norm [closed]
I am wondering what are the best known relationship between $\|A\|_{2\rightarrow 2}$ and $\|A\|_{\infty\rightarrow 2}$ and how tight it is.
E.g., the trivial result is that for matrix $A$ with ...
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Inverse of a matrix and the inverse of its diagonals
While researching a question, I faced with the following problem: I have to prove that for a positive definite matrix we have
$${\mathbf n}^T {\mathbf R}^{-1}{\mathbf n}\geq {\mathbf n}^T {\mathbf D}...
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What matrix has only negative or zero real part for all the eigenvalues?
Say $X \in \mathbb{R}^{m\times m}$,
Is it possible to have a constraint on $X$, such that all the eigenvalues has negative or zero real part?
What I conjecture
The following $X$ has only negative ...
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Bound on the ratio of top 2 eigenvalues
Let $P$ be a $n \times n$ stochastic matrix such that $P_{ij}=\tau$ if $i \neq j$ and $P_{ii} = 1 - (n-1)\tau$ where $0<\tau < \frac{1}{n}$.
It is clear that the largest eigenvalue of $P$ is 1, ...
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Positive and trace-preserving transformations with a common fixed point of full rank
The following problem which has been on my mind for a while now arises from the realm of quantum information involving quantum channels with a common fixed point of full rank, as well as majorization ...
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Can we write unitary matrices as positive linear combinations of Hermitian matrices?
The space $M_n:=M_n(\mathbb{C})$ of complex $n\times n$ matrices has the structure of a finite-dimensional complex vector space.
The space of Hermitian matrices forms a cone in this vector space $M_n$...
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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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Is there a homeomorphism between the sets of Schur stable and Hurwitz stable matrices in companion forms?
This is a cross-post to the question I asked at MSE.
The set of Schur stable matrices is
\begin{align*}
\mathcal S = \{A \in M_n(\mathbb R): \rho(A) < 1\},
\end{align*}
where $\rho(\cdot)$ denotes ...
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Can we classify the general linear maps such that for a fixed matrix $A \in M_n(\mathbb R)$ the conjuagation action fixes the first column?
Let $A \in GL_n(\mathbb R)$ be fixed. Let us consider the conjugation action by $G \in GL_n(\mathbb R)$, i.e., $G^{-1}AG$. I would like to see a way to identify the matrices such that the action fixes ...
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When does $S \cap GL_4(\mathbb R)$ have precisely two connected components where $S \subset M_4(\mathbb R)$ is a linear subspace?
This is a cross-post to the question I asked at MSE.
Let $A \in M_4(\mathbb R)$ and $A = (e_2, x, e_4, y)$ where $e_2, e_4$ are standard basis in $\mathbb R^4$ and $x,y$ are undetermined variables. ...
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Geometric mean of three or more positive definite matrices
The geometric mean of two positive definite (Hermitian) matrices of same size is defined by $$A\natural B := A^{1/2}(A^{-1/2}BA^{-1/2})^{1/2}A^{1/2},$$equivalently,
$$A\natural B =(BA^{-1})^{1/2}A=A(A^...
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A "positive diagonal plus skew-symmetric" matrix decomposition
Let $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be a diagonalizable matrix with real and strictly positive eigenvalues (note that $A$ is not required to be symmetric).
My question. Do there exist an orthogonal ...
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An inequality concerning the solution of a Lyapunov equation
Let $A$ be an Hurwitz stable matrix (i.e. the real part of the eigenvalues of $A$ lie in the left-half plane) and $Q$ be a positive semidefinite matrix ($Q\ge 0$, for short). Let $P>0$ be the ...
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How to find the analytical representation of eigenvalues of the matrix $G$?
I have the following matrix arising when I tried to discretize the Green function， now to show the convergence of my algorithm I need to find the eigenvalues of the matrix $G$ and show it has absolute ...
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On ranks of matrices with tensor structure
Fix two $2^t$ length vector of form $p=\begin{bmatrix}u_1&v_1\end{bmatrix}\otimes\dots\otimes\begin{bmatrix}u_t&v_t\end{bmatrix}$ and $r=\begin{bmatrix}w_1&z_1\end{bmatrix}\otimes\dots\...
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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?
$${...
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Diagonal elements of Hermitian matrices with given eigenvalues
Given real vectors $d = (d_1, \ldots, d_n)$ and $\lambda = (\lambda_1, \ldots, \lambda_n)$, where I will assume that their coefficients are arranged in non-increasing order, the Schur-Horn theorem ...
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Maximizing a certain eigenvalue ratio
Let $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be an Hurwitz stable matrix (i.e., the spectrum of $A$ lies on the left-half complex plane) and let $P$ be the unique positive definite solution of the following ...
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Decay rate of least eigenvalue of Gram matrices
Consider the Hilbert space $H=L^2_w(I)$ as the weighted $L^2$ space, where $I\subseteq\mathbb{R}$:
$$ L_w^2(I)=\{\phi:I\rightarrow\mathbb{R}:\,\|\phi\|^2=\int_I \phi(x)^2w(x)\,dx<\infty\}. $$
In ...
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An upper bound for a vector with given norm 1 and norm 2
Suppose $X = (x_1, \ldots , x_n)$ is given and we know that $x_i$'s are nonnegative, $\sum_{i=1}^n x_i = n$ and $\sum_{i=1}^n x_i^2 = m $. Just by this information, is it possible to find a vector ...
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SVD of two matrices A and B having the same right singular vectors?
I saw this statement in a lecture note
Assume the generalized SVD of matrices $A\in R^{m\times n}$ and $B\in R^{p\times n}$ given as:
$$U^TAX = diag(\alpha_1, ..., \alpha_n),~ U^TU = I_m$$
$$V^TBX = ...
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Inverse of a small submatrix
Let $A$ be a large matrix (say, $1000 \times 1000$), and let $\mathcal I = \{2,3,5\}$ be a set of row/column indices. Let $(A^{-1})_{\cal I \times I}$ denote the submatrix of $A^{-1}$ that consists of ...
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An inequality regarding projection
Let $a, b \in \mathbb{R}^k$ be two normalized vectors such that $a^T b << 1$. Define matrix $C$ such that $[a, b, C]$ is full column rank, and let matrix $D$ be positive definite. Define ...
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Matrix trace & norm [closed]
For any nonnegative semidefinite matrix $A$ and any matrix $B$, we have
$$\mbox{tr} (AB) \le \mbox{tr} (A) \, \|B\|$$
where $\mbox{tr}(\cdot)$ is the trace and $\|\cdot\|$ is the operator norm. How ...
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Upper bound on matrix perturbation such that all eigenvalues lie within the unit circle
Consider the matrix
$$N=\left[\matrix{\mathbb{I}_n-\epsilon L & X\\ \epsilon Y & Z}\right]$$
where $\epsilon>0$ is a small positive parameter and $Z$ is a square $m\times m$ matrix with ...
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Matrix elements of exponential of tridiagonal matrices
Is there a way to compute one matrix element of the exponential of a tridiagonal matrix without having to compute the rest of the elements?
Motivation: I'm trying to find the first passage time ...
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A property of positive matrices
Let $\mathbb{S}^{dn} \ni X \succeq 0$ with $d,n \in \mathbb{N}$, where $X \succeq 0$ indicates that $X$ is positive semidefinite. Now partition $X$ into the block form
\begin{gather}
\begin{pmatrix}
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A vanishing sum of symmetric matrices
Let $\{G_i\}_{i=1}^N\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times m}$ be a set of full column rank matrices (i.e., $\mathrm{rank}(G_i)=m$ for all $i$) and $\{P_i\}_{i=1}^N\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times m}$ be a set of positive ...
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Conditions for $B$ that make $ADB + (ADB)^T$ positive (semi-)definite
I am trying to find conditions under which this dynamical system converges. At the end of the day, we have something like
$$
0 \leq x^TD_0W_0D_1W_1D_2 \dots W_ND_NCx
$$
With $D_i$ matrices that are ...
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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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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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Nontrivial lower bound on the sum of matrix norms
Let $X, V\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times r}$ such that $X^\top V$ is symmetric. The central quantity I care about is
\begin{equation}
\|XV^\top\|_{F}^2+\|X^\top V\|_{F}^2 +[\text{Tr}(X^\top V)]^2.
\end{...
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Determinant of $Z^TZ$ [closed]
If one is looking at the characteristic polynomial of the $m \times m$ dimensional matrix $Z^TZ$ then apparently the coefficient of $(-1)^{m-k}$ in it can be written as, $\sum_{U \subset [m], V \...
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