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Finding roots of a recursively given polynomial sequence / eigenvalues of an almost Toeplitz matix
I would like to find the roots of the polynomial sequence given by a recurrence relation as follows:
$V_0(x) = 1-a^2$
$V_1(x) = 1-a^2 - x$
$V_{k \geq 2}(x) = (1+a^2 - x)V_{k-1}(x) - a^2V_{k-2}(x)$
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Bound on smallest entry of inverse matrix
For a symmetric, invertible matrix $A=(a_{ij})\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ with (at least two) nonzero off-diagonal elements, is it possible to bound in absolute value the smallest entry of its inverse ...
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Are there any known results on numerical ranges of rank-one positive semi-definite matrices?
In my problem, I came across numerical ranges of rank-one positive semidefinite matrices. Through Toeplitz-Hausdorff theorem and some other extensions, I know if there are at most three matrices, then ...
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When is this matrix singular?
Consider matrix $A$ with $(j,k)$′th entry $A_{j,k}=\sin(\omega_j t_k+\phi_j),\,\forall j,k\in\{1,2,...,n\}$, where $\omega_j,t_k,\phi_j\in \mathbf R$.
1) For $t_k=k$, what is the condition on $\...
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Incoherence of the row/column span
Due to V.Chandrasekaran., et al (p.11) : In general for any $k$-dimensional subspace of $A_{n×n}$ we have that:
$$\sqrt{(k/n)} \leq incoherence(A)\leq 1$$
where the lower bound is achieved (for ...
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Nonnegative Matrix
Let $A=E+\sqrt{-1}B$, where $E=diag\{0,1,\cdots,1\}$, $B$ is a real symmetric matrix. Let $A^*$ denote the adjoint matrix of $A$, i.e. $AA^*=\det A\cdot I$. I hope the real part of adjoint matrix ${\...
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The derivative of the Cholesky factor
Let $A$ be a symmetric, positive definite $p\times p$ matrix, and let $f(A)$ be its Cholesky factor. That is, $f(A)$ is a lower triangular $p\times p$ matrix such that $A = f(A) f(A)^{\top}$. I am ...
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Decomposition of a semi-definite matrix into sums of sparse semi-definite matrices
I'll first provide the background.
Let $x\in\mathbb{R}^N$ be decomposed into $n$ non-overlapping blocks of variables
$x^{(1)},\ldots,x^{(n)}$.
We say that $f:\mathbb{R}^N\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ is ...
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A Problem on Linear Algebra
I'm trying to calculate an integral over the generalized Poincare upper half plane, then I find that I need to show the following identity:
Let $X=(X_{i,j})\in\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb R)(n\geq 3)$ ...
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A - B is semidefinite, what the relationship about their eigenvalues? [closed]
$A, B$ are two symmetric matrices, if $ A-B $ is semidefinite (i.e.$ A - B \geq 0$), if we rearrange the eigenvalues of two matrices, $\lambda_1 (A) \geq \lambda_2 (A) \geq ... \geq \lambda_n (A)$, ...
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Optimization problem on trace of rotated positive definite matrices
Given two $n \times n$ symmetric positive definite matrices $A$ and $B$, I am interested in solving the following optimization problem over $n \times n$ unitary matrices $R$:
$$
\mathrm{arg}\max_R \,\...
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Dimension independent computational complexity of singular value decomposition
Suppose $X$ is a $m \times n$ real matrix, which has only $k$ number of nonzero elements ($k \ll mn$).
Given a vector $y$, the sparsity of $X$ allows $X y$ to be computed in $O(k)$ time
which is ...
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Bounding the positive semi-definite matrix with its block diagonal matrix [closed]
Can we bound $\mathbf{A}$ with $\mathbf{A^*}$ as ${\bf{A}} \preceq {{\bf{A}}^*}$ where
\begin{equation}
{\bf{A}} = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}
{{{\bf{A}}_{11}}}&{...}&{{{\bf{A}}_{1N}}}\\
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On a determinant inequality of positive definite matrices
Assume that $B$ and $A$ are two positive definite matrices. Take $B^*$ a block diagonal matrix with block $B_{11}$ and $B_{22}$ of $B$. This means the following:
$$
B=\left[\begin{array}{ll}
B_{11}&...
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M-matrix with nonconstant entries properties
I have a matrix $J(x)$ with $J_{ij}(x)=f_{ij}(x)$ where vector $x$ is $x=x_1, x_2, ..., x_m$. I have shown that $J(x)$ is an M-matrix for all $x$. There is known review paper by Plemmons (1977) of 40 ...
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Row subset selection of matrix to optimize condition number
Given a matrix $\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{C}^{N\times M}$ with $N \gg M$. This matrix results from a linear equation system and has a certain structure (however, I do not think that details provide any ...
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Copositivity in matrix pencils
Given two square symmetric matrices $A,B$ of the same order, the matrix pencil $P(A,B)$ is the set of linear combinations of $A$ and $B$. Finsler's theorem gives an elegant criterion for $P(A,B)$ to ...
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Inequalities for Hadamard products of complex symmetric matrices
Consider a complex symmetric matrix $$ C= C_R + i C_I $$ with $C_R,C_I \in \text{Mat}_{n\times n}(\mathbb R)$ symmetric, and assume that the eigenvalues of $C_R$ are all strictly positive. Then, $C$ ...
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Diagonal of the inverse of a 6x6 symmetric partitioned matrix
Let
$$M = \begin{bmatrix}
A & B \\
B & C
\end{bmatrix}$$
in which $A$, $B$ and $C$ are $3 \times 3$ matrices being also symmetric. In fact, they are quite similar, just differing on a single ...
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Maximal norm-1 projection
Suppose I have a real unitary matrix $U$ and a unit vector $\mathbf{x}, \|\mathbf{x}\|_2 = 1$. What is the solution to the following problem?
$$
\widehat{\mathbf{x}} = \arg\max_{\mathbf{x}, ~\|\...
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Eigenvalues of an amplification matrix
Let $A$ and $B$ square real matrices.
I know that the matrix $A+B$ has 1 as eigenvalue of multiplicity 1 and the others eigenvalues have their modulus <1.
Can we say something about the eigenvalues ...
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M-matrix plus S-matrix is P-matrix?
I am trying to prove that a mapping has a unique fixed-point by showing that its Jacobian is a P-matrix. In this particular case the Jacobian can be decomposed as the sum of two matrices and I would ...
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Computing a large permanent
Is there a practical way to compute the permanent of a large ($91 \times 91$) $(0,1)$ matrix?
I have tried to use the matlab function written by Luke Winslow which works great for smaller matrices ...
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Matrices with a common Fischer basis
Let $A$ be a real symmetric $n\times n$ matrix, normalized such that $Tr[A]=1$. Define a 'Fischer basis' as the basis in which all diagonal elements are equal to $\frac{1}{n}$. The motivation for ...
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Rank of a matrix with missing entries
Let $M$ be a $2^n \times 2^n$ matrix over real number field, where the rows and columns are indexed by subsets of $[n] := \{1,2,\ldots,n\}$, and defined as follows,
$
M_{A, B} = 1
$
if $A \subseteq B$;...
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2x2 subdeterminants of a matrix
If N>2, it is well known that if two invertible NxN matrices A and B have the same determinants of any 2x2 corresponding submatrices, then A=B or A=-B.
Given then all these 2x2 determinants of an ...
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On the positive definiteness of a linear combination of matrices
In my work in PDE, the following problem in linear algebra came up. Any help in this direction is appreciated.
QUESTION:
Let $m,n\in\mathbb{N}$ and let $A_1,\ldots, A_m\in M_n(\mathbb{R})$ be real, ...
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Singular values of the sum of A and A^T
As a part of my research, I need to achieve a lower bound to the smallest singular value, $\sigma_{n}(A+A^{T})$ for a stochastic $A$ (as a function of the singular values of $A$), which is generally ...
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Kernel of modified Kronecker sum
The Kronecker sum of two matrices $A \in M(n \times n, \mathbb{R})$ and $B \in M(m \times m,\mathbb{R})$ is defined by the matrix
$$A \oplus B = A \otimes I_m + I_n \otimes B \in M(nm \times nm, \...
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Triangularizing a function matrix with smooth eigenvlaues
Given a matrix with function entries, which are smooth and homogeneous, and having smooth eigenvalues, can we find a conjugating matrix with smooth and homogeneous entries that triangularize the given ...
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power of a block triangular matrix
I have a matrix in the form :
$$M =
\begin{pmatrix}
A & 0 & 0 \\\
B & A & 0 \\\
C & D & A
\end{pmatrix}
$$
where $A,B,C,D$ are diagonalizable square matrices and I want to ...
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Simultaneous maximization of two Generalized Rayleigh Ritz Ratios
Consider hermitian positive semi-definite matrices $A_1$ and $A_2$. Consider also positive definite matrices $B_1$ and $B_2$. I want to maximize the minimum of the two Generalized Rayleigh Ritz ratios ...
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Trace inequality for matrices with determinant 1
Let $A$ and $B$ be two matrices with $\det(A)=\det(B)=1$. Does it follow that
$\sqrt{\mathrm{tr}(A^TB^TBA-I)}\le\sqrt{\mathrm{tr}(A^TA-I)}+\sqrt{\mathrm{tr}(B^TB-I)}$
I suspect that this can be ...
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Simultaneous Jordanization
Hello everyone
I would like to have a detailed reference to the statement bellow:
Let $A,B\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ such that $AB=BA$. Suppose $A$ has real eigenvalues only and $B$ is ...
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Probability of a submatrix to be full rank in a N x N Random Matrix of rank m.
Consider a random matrix $\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{C}^{N \times N}$ of rank $m$ with $m < N$ that follows the Wishart distribution ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishart_distribution ).
I have a ...
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a question about the Jordan form [closed]
Some reference say that if rank($A$)=rank($A^2$),then the geometric and algebraic multiplicities of the eigenvalues $\lambda=0$ are equal;that is,all the Jordan blocks correspondint to $\lambda=0$ (if ...
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Number of parameters needed to specify a Hermitian matrix of rank r.
Hi,
i have two questions that seem to bother me lately. Maybe you could help me and/or point me in any related literature.
1) Assume hermitian matrix $H \in \mathcal{C}^{n \times n}$ that has rank $...
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Convex Combination of 2 hermitian matrices
Assume all the matrices I discuss about are $N \times N$. Consider any two hermitian matrices $A_1$ and $A_2$ which are indefinite. The question is, In general, for any $A_1$ and $A_2$ (both matrices ...
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Hadamard product and inertia
One of Schur's famous results says that if $A,B$ are positive semidefinite matrices, then the Hadamard (i.e. entrywise) product $A \circ B$ is also positive semidefinite. It's also true if "semi" is ...
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Optimizing the condition number
Suppose I have a set $S$ of $N$ vectors in $W=\mathbb{R}^m,$ with $N \gg m.$ I want to choose a subset $\{v_1, \dots, v_m\}$ of $S$ in such a way that the condition number of the matrix with columns $...
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An $L^{\infty}$ version of principal component analysis?
I have a $k$ by $n$ matrix $A$, with $k \ll n$. In case it helps, the $k$ rows are orthonormal.
I'm interested in finding a $k$ by $k$ orthogonal matrix $M$ so as to maximize the $L^{\infty}$ norms ...
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What is the Birkhoff norm of a Perron vector?
Let $A$ be a positive matrix. What is known about the Birkhoff norm of its Perron vector?
By the Birkhoff norm of a vector $x$ I refer to the quantity $\frac{\max{x}}{\min{x}}$.
P.S. This is ...
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Woodbury formula
I wonder - do you know of any example where the Woodbury formula (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbury_matrix_identity) was crucially used to prove anything?
It might be a useful computational ...
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Diagonalizing matrix with a special conjugate transpose property
Hi all,
I'm looking for the minimum criterion on $A\in M_{3x3}(\mathbb{C})$ (a $3x3$ complex matrix) such that:
1) $A$ is diagonalizable by a matrix $T\in M_{3x3}(\mathbb{C})$
2) $T$ is such that $...
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vector equation
Suppose you have an equation of the form $Hx=Ky$, where $x,y$ are vectors of length $n,m$ respectively ($m>n$) and $H,K$ are matrices of orders $n \times n,n \times m$ respectively. Is there some ...
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A sum of eigenvalues
Let $X$ be an $n\times n$ symmetric matrix. Suppose $\lambda_1(X)\geq \lambda_2(X) \geq \cdots \geq \lambda_n(X)$ are eigenvalues of $X$. Let $r$ be any integer with $1\leq r\leq n$. It is well-known ...
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Simultaneous decomposition of three projectors
A projector $P$ is a Hermitian matrix satisfying $P^2=P$. For any two projectors, it is easy to show that there exists a unitary matrix $U$ such that both $U^*PU$ and $U^*QU$ are block-diagonal ...
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sign-flipping inverse
Consider this matrix:
$Z=\begin{bmatrix}23.9 & -7 & -17 \\\\ -7 & 23.9 & -17 \\\\ -17 & -17 & 33.9 \end{bmatrix}$
Its inverse is entrywise negative (you can check...) and ...
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upper bounds on a certain matrix norm
Is there some simple upper bound on $||(B^{-1}+A^{-1})^{-1}||$, where $A,B$ are $n \times n$ symmetric matrices?
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Triangularizing a matrix with function entries
Hi Everybody!
Given a matrix, with smooth functions as arguments is there any result which say about its triangularization?
I know that, the question is in affirmative for diagonalizing a matrix ...
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