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Matrices whose exponential is stochastic
The complex matrix exponential of a Hermitian matrix is unitary: $e^{-iH} = U$. Is there a name or a characterization for matrices Q whose real exponential is stochastic: $e^{-Q} = S$?
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Techniques to bound products of upper triangular matrices and their inverses
Let $A_0, \dots, A_{n-1}$ be upper triangular matrices with ones on the diagonal. Let $B_{n-1}, \dots, B_0$ be of the same form.
I am interested in bounding
$$|| A_0 \dots A_{n-1} B_{n-1}^{-1} \dots ...
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Vector spaces with natural bases
Sergeib's question asks about vector spaces without a natural basis.
Actually, I would claim (apparently in accord with many comments and answers to Sergeib's question ) that this is the default ...
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Standard name for basis-independent submatrices?
Given a linear map $T:H\to H$ on an inner-product space $H$ and a subspace $K\subseteq H$, define the map $T_K = \pi_K T \pi_K^* :K \to K$, where $\pi_K:H\to K$ is the orthogonal projection.
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Connections between a polytope's symmetry group and the existence of periodic orbits
Given an $n$-dimensional convex polytope $P$, one may set into motion a point-mass, starting on one of the facets of $P$, which travels along a straight trajectory inside $P$ except on collision with ...
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A signature inequality?
Given two real symmetric matrices $A$ and $B$ of common square size $n$ with no strictly negative eigenvalues, can the symmetric matrix $AB+BA$ have strictly more than $n/2$ eigenvalues which are ...
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Explicit invariants (under change of basis) of maps $V \to V \otimes V$.
It is standard to construct numbers associated to a linear transformation $f: V \to V$ of a finite-dimensional vector space which are invariant under change of basis. The coefficients of the ...
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The lie algebra of the orthogonal group of an arbitrary space time metric
Let X ad Y be two vectors in R4, and define the inner product of X and Y as:
(X*Y) = gikXiYk (summation convention for repeated indicies)
Then we consider the 4x4 matrix g whose components are gik. ...
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Good sources for linear algebra for convex optimization and graph analysis?
What are some good sources for linear algebra for convex optimization and graph analysis?
In Particular, is Gilbert Strang's MIT course suitable, or some other online course? I prefer online courses (...
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Matrices into path algebras
I was thinking about quivers recently, and the following idea came to me.
Let ei,j denote the matrix unit in Mn for 1 ≤ i,j ≤ n. Let Γ denote the complete quiver on vertices {1, …,...
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Is there a standard measure for how close a matrix is to being a distance metric ?
Suppose I have a square n*n, symmetric matrix with positive elements and zero diagonal.
For this to be considered a proper distance metric between n points, the triangle inequality needs to be ...
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Quantum observables
Let H be a Hilbert space and A, B two non-commuting bounded linear operators. Let Com(A,B) be the set of bounded linear operators C which commute both with A and B.
Question 1 : What is known about ...
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(Elementary?) combinatorial identity expressing binomial coefficients as an alternating sum over permutations.
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I came up with this while trying to find a sort of high-level exposition of the exterior algebra of a vector space. Let $V$ be a vector space of dimension $n$ over $\mathbb{C}$, and let $...
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Efficient approximation of a matrix and its inverse
Assume that $ A $ is a real $ n\times n $ matrix whose rows constitute an orthonormal basis of $ \mathbb R^n $.
Informal statement of question: Assume we want to approximate $ A $ by a rational ...
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Ways to Synthesize Topics in Linear Algebra
Hello, I am currently studying linear algebra right now. In general, the material is pretty straight-forward but it doesn't seem particularly interesting. I suppose that the main thing that I am ...
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Eigenvalues of sum of commuting matrices [closed]
With reference to the following thread :
Eigenvalues of Matrix Sums
Answer by Jonas Meyer is as follows :
If 2 positive matrices commute, than each eigenvalue of the sum is a sum of eigenvalues of ...
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How can we realize different combinatorial objects as the dimension of a construction on vector spaces? Are the resulting algebras useful?
Fix a vector space $V$ of dimension $n$ over some field $F$. Here are three commonly seen constructions:
its $k$th tensor power, $T^kV$, which has dimension $n^k$
its $k$th exterior power, $\Lambda^k(...
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Matrix Conjugates over Finite Fields
Thinking about Diffe-Hillman for matrices brought me to the following question.
Given $\mathbb{F}_{p^k}$ the finite field with $p^k$ elements when can we find non-trivial solutions to
$\begin{...
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Invariant subspaces of subalgebras of $M_n(C)$
Given a subalgebra E of $M_n$ (nxn complex valued matrices), what can we say about the subspaces F of $M_n$ such that $EF \subset F$? Googling for an answer gives me the reference:
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Linear algebra inequality
I'm wondering (hoping) if an inequality is true. Please can anyone help me?
Let $V$ be a complex vector space $dim_{\mathbb{C}}(V)=n$
with a hermitian scalar product $h$.
Let $v,a, b \in V$.
Is it ...
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What is the entropy of a density matrix which is the sum of two unitarily equivalent projectors?
Construction
Suppose I have a density matrix $\rho$ which is proportional to a projector $P$ formed by tensoring together $N$ small projectors $P^{(i)}$ of rank 2:
$P^{(i)} = |a\rangle_i\langle a| + |...
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O(n^2) algorithm to approximate the sum of the log of the singular values of a matrix
Given an $M \times N$ matrix of rank $N$ ($M \ge N$) with $i^{th}$ singular value $\sigma_i$, does their exist an $O(M^2)$ algorithm for approximating the sum $ H =\sum_{i=1}^N \log(\sigma_i)$ with ...
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Jordan Form Over a Polynomial Ring
Let $X$ be the set of $k\times k$ matrix with entries in $\mathbb{C}$, and let $M\in X$. The group $GL(k,\mathbb{C})$ acts on $X$ by conjugation, and according to the Jordan decomposition theorem (...
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Any known compact expression for
Is there any known compact expression for the sum
$$S_{k} = \sum_{i=1}^{k} A^{i-1} P Q^{k-i}$$
where $A$, $P$ and $Q$ are respectively $m \times m$, $m \times n$ and $n \times n$ matrices?.
You can ...
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Are there infinitely many equivalence classes of similar matrices? [closed]
It is easy to show that similarity in matrices is an equivalence relation (two matrices A and B of same size being similar if there exists a matrix P such that B = PAP^(-1) )
Moreover, given a matrix, ...
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Existence of a pair of matrices in SL(2,Z) satisfying certain constraints on the spectral radius
Some background: my coauthors and I are working on a problem which deals with the exponential growth rates of certain infinite products of matrices. One of the sub-problems which arises in this ...
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Finding the $J$ for a symplectic vector space
I found something strange when I was working on some other problems.
I thought the triple intersection description of the unitary group said that any two of $(g, \omega, J)$ determines the third ...
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A system of linear equations with linear constraints
Mathematical problem.
Suppose we have $2n$ indeterminates $x_1,\dots,x_n$ and $y_1,\dots,y_n$ (which are denoted by $q$ with indices and called abundances below) and $m$ subsets $P_1,\dots,P_m$ of $\...
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Centralizers in GL(n,p)
There appear to be a number of rational canonical forms. The best thing about standards is how many there are to choose from. However, the standard I choose seems to have a centralizer that is ...
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Involutions in GL_n(Z)
Is there a classification of involutions in $\text{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$?
Here's some more details about what I mean. Consider $f \in \text{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$ such that $f^2=1$. Regard $f$ as an ...
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Is it possible to use linear programming to solve this problem?
I am trying to write software to minimize pricing for cell phone subscription services, ie: choose the optimum plan for each customer in a large group.
Could someone comment on whether this is ...
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A question on matrix decomposition.
Is the following claim true?
Claim Let $A, B\in C^{n\times n}$ with $rank(A)=rank(B)=r$. Then there exist nonsingular matrices $P_1, P_2, Q_1, Q_2$ such that
$$ Q_1AP_1=Q_2BP_2=\left(\begin{array}{...
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Simultaneous Block decomposition of a set of orthogonal projections
An orthogonal projection is an Hermitian matrix $P$ such that $P^2=P$.
Denote $U^*$ the conjugate transpose of a matrix $U$.
It can be easily shown that for two projections $P_1$ and $P_2$, there ...
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Is the direction of the longest line of a polytope unique?
The question pertains to a polytope that is generated by the intersection of an affine subspace with a hypercube in $p$ dimensions.
The affine subspace is given by:
$X \mbox{ u} = y$
where
$u$ &...
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Matroids with prescribed independent sets
Let $A$ be a finite set. Let $B$ be a family of subsets of $A$. We are interested in a matroid with a minimum rank such that every element of $B$ is independent. The answer is obvious - a uniform ...
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How can we explicitly find the maximum eigenvalue of a tridiagonal matrix?
I just came across a matrix of the form
$A:=\begin{pmatrix}
0&-\frac{c_0}{b_0}&0&\cdots&0\\-\frac{a_1}{b_1}&0&-\frac{c_1}{b_1}&\cdots&0\\0&-\frac{a_2}{b_2}&0&...
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Decide how many non-negative solutions a set of multivariate quadratic equations have
Given a set of multivariate, quadratic, non-homogeneous equations, is there a way to decide how many non-negative roots it have?
Some explanations:
All the coefficients are real numbers.
The number ...
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"Main" diagonal of a matrix
Hello!
I'm in search of some (possibly statistical) measure for matrices. I want to classify a square matrix as having the largest numbers running along the main diagonal or along the anitdiagonal. ...
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A solver of a noisy system containing pairs of very similar linear equations, this is not about accurate solving of ill-cond. s.
Let there be a possibly overdetermined system AX = B, where B are some measured data, with a low noise level. To cancel out the measurement noise, and to allow for more unknowns, a large B is acquired,...
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AC in group isomorphism between R and R^2
Using the axiom of choice, one can show that $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{R}^2$ are isomorphic as additive groups. In particular, they are both vector spaces over $\mathbb{Q}$ and AC gives bases of ...
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(Path) connected set of matrices?
Let $N \in \mathfrak{M}_n(\mathbb{C})$ nilpotent, such that there exists $X \in \mathfrak M_n(\mathbb{C})$ with $X^2=N$ (take for instance $n>2$ and $N(1,n)=1$; $N(i,j)=0$ otherwise).
Denote by $\...
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Surjectivity of bilinear forms.
It is not uncommon to describe interesting classes of field extensions by declaring that an extension $L|K$ belongs to that class if some type of problem with $K$-coefficiens has a property over $L$ ...
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Finite subgroups of GL_n(C)
A finite groups of $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb C)$ of exponent $m$ necessarily have order $C$ verifying $C\leqslant m^n$ and $n! m^n$ divides $C$, but this condition is not sufficient, for instance $\...
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free Z-modules: Bases etc.
I need a reference which states which of the "normal properties of vector spaces" carry over to free $\mathbb{Z}$-modules.
Especially I am interested in things like: If you have a linear map between ...
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Non-diagonalizable complex symmetric matrix
This is a question in elementary linear algebra, though I hope it's not so trivial to be closed.
Real symmetric matrices, complex hermitian matrices, unitary matrices, and complex matrices with ...
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Random projection and finite fields
Suppose we have, say, $n$ $2n$-dimensional linearly independent vectors over $\mathbb{F}_2$. We do a projection on a random $d$-dimensional subspace. We are interested in probability that images of ...
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What is a concomitant (and other questions on D.E. Littlewood's "Products and plethysms of characters with orthogonal, symplectic, and symmetric groups" )?
I'm trying to understand the paper "Products and plethysms of characters with orthogonal, symplectic, and symmetric groups" by D.E. Littlewood (link), but I'm having trouble overcoming the language ...
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Nonexistence of determinantal functional equation for $\arccos$
Suppose I have distinct real numbers $a_i \in [-1,1]$, $i \in [k]$. I want to choose real numbers $b_j, j\in [k]$ such that the matrix $(\arccos(a_i b_j))_{i,j \in [k]}$ is nonsingular.
Is this ...
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Operation of GL_n(Z/bZ) [closed]
I want to show, that $GL_n(\mathbb{Z}/b\mathbb{Z})$ operates transitively on
$X = \{ (v_1, \ldots, v_n) \in (\mathbb{Z}/b\mathbb{Z})^n \ | \ v_1\mathbb{Z}/b\mathbb{Z} + \ldots + v_n\mathbb{Z}/b\...
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Connected subset of matrices ?
Let $m,n$ be positive integers with $m \leqslant n$, and denote by $\mu_M$ the minimal polynomial of a matrix.
Do we know for which $m$ the set $E_m$ of $M \in \mathfrak{M}_n(\mathbb{R})$ such that $\...
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