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Fermat's Last Theorem for integer matrices
Some years ago I was asked by a friend if Fermat's Last Theorem was true for matrices. It is pretty easy to convince oneself that it is not the case, and in fact the following statement occurs ...
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Fast matrix multiplication
Suppose we have two $n$ by $n$ matrices over particular ring. We want to multiply them as fast as possible. According to wikipedia there is an algorithm of Coppersmith and Winograd that can do it in $...
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Eigenvalues of the product of two symmetric matrices
This is mostly a reference request, as this must be well-known!
Let $A$ and $B$ be two real symmetric matrices, one of which is positive definite. Then it is easy to see that the product $AB$ (or $BA$...
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how to find/define eigenvectors as a continuous function of matrix?
I asked this (with background) here
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/38494/principal-component-analysis-bootstrap-and-probability-of-eigenvalue-collision
but did not really get any answers. ...
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What is known about the distribution of eigenvectors of random matrices?
Let $A$ be a real asymmetric $n \times n$ matrix with i.i.d. random, zero-mean elements. What results, if any, are there for the eigenvectors of $A$? In particular:
How are individual eigenvectors ...
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Real square roots of symmetric matrices
In joint work with Andreas Fischle (TU Dresden, Germany) and Patrizio Neff (U Essen, Germany) we needed to use the following statement: If $S$ is a real $n\times n$ matrix with $S^2$ symmetric, then ...
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Find $Y\in\operatorname{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$ such that all eigenvalues of $YX$ are nonnegative
I saw this problem some years ago and I would greatly appreciate any reference or solution.
Let $X \in \operatorname{M}_n ( \mathbb{R} )$. Prove that there is $Y \in \operatorname{M}_n ( \mathbb{Z} )$...
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The GCD-matrix: generalizing a result of Smith?
Let $M$ be the $n\times n$ matrix, known as the GCD matrix, of entries $M_{ij}=\gcd(i,j)$. In the paper
H J S Smith, On the value of a certain arithmetical determinant, Proc. London Math. Soc. 7:208-...
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How many minors I need to check to conclude all minors will vanish ?
Given a $m \times n$ matrix $n>m$, I was trying to check if all its $m \times m$ minor vanish.
I remember hearing that one really does not need to check all possible minors in order to conclude ...
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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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Kernel of skew-symmetric matrix of rank $n-1$ with $n$ odd: is this a known result?
When $n$ is odd, the kernel of a skew-symmetric matrix $M$ of size $n\times n$ and rank $n-1$ is the span of $v$, where $v$ is a vector whose $i$-th component is the Pfaffian of the matrix obtained by ...
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Vandermonde matrix is totally positive
A totally positive matrix $M\in \mathcal{M}_{n\times m}(\mathbb R)$ is such that all of its minors of all sizes are positive. It is true that any Vandermonde matrix (with well-ordered positive entries)...
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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 Dynkin type classification result in linear algebra
Let $G$ be a finite directed acyclic graph. The Cartan matrix $C_G=C$ of $G$ is defined as the matrix with rows and colums indexed by the vertices of $G$ and $c_{i,j}$ counts the number of paths from $...
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yet another determinant and inverse of a matrix
This problem is some variation of another MO question. Consider the matrix
$$M_n:=\begin{bmatrix}-c& a & a& \dots & a \\ b & c & a& \ddots & a\\ b & b & -c &...
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A square root inequality for symmetric matrices?
In this post all my matrices will be $\mathbb R^{N\times N}$ symmetric positive semi-definite (psd), but I am also interested in the Hermitian case. In particular the square root $A^{\frac 12}$ of a ...
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How do computer algebra packages like Sagemath implement rank of a matrix
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I believe there will be people here who do computations on computer algebra packages like Sage in their work.
I have been using ...
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Find the inverse of a matrix that is very similar to the Hilbert matrix
The standard Hilbert matrix $H$ is given by
$$H_{ij}=\frac{1}{i+j-1},$$
and it has an inverse given for example in this MO question.
Now I have encountered a matrix $M$ of similar form, namely,
$$...
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Coefficient-wise powers of matrices. Reference wanted
Let $K$ be a commutative field and ${\rm M}_n (K)$ be the ring of $n\times n$ square matrices with coefficients in $K$ ($n\geqslant 1$ is an integer). For $k\geqslant 1$ and $A =(a_{ij})_{1\leqslant i,...
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Homogeneous polynomials, mixed determinants, positive definiteness
Are there $n\times n$ real matrices $A_{1}, \ldots, A_{n}$ such that the $n$-homogeneous polynomial
$$
f(x_{1}, \ldots, x_{n}) = \det(x_{1} A_{1}+\cdots +x_{n} A_{n})
$$
never vanishes on $\...
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Name for an operation on matrices?
Given two matrices $A$ and $B$ of size $a \times n$ and $b \times m$ consider the following operation $A \dagger B$ whose result is an $a b^n \times n m$ matrix. $A \dagger B$ is a block matrix with $...
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$M = AA^t$ where $A$ has unit norm columns
Let $M \in \mathbb{R}^{k\times k}$ positive definite with $\operatorname{tr} M = m$, where $m$ is an integer such that $m \geq k$. I have found a way (using this answer) to decompose $M = AA^t$ with $...
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Bounding the minimum singular value of a block triangular matrix
Question:
What is the sharpest known lower bound for the minimum singular value of the block triangular matrix
$$M:=\begin{bmatrix}
A & B \\ 0 & D
\end{bmatrix}$$
in terms of the properties ...
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Representation theorem for matrices (reference request)
Motivation. If $A \in \mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$ is self-adjoint (or, more generally, normal), then we all know that
$$
A = \sum_{k=1}^n \lambda_k \, h_k \otimes h_k,
$$
where $\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_n$...
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Best known bounds on (border) ranks of small matrix multiplication tensors?
The $(m,n,p)$-matrix multiplication tensor is a representation of the bilinear map $T\colon\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}\times\mathbb{R}^{n\times p}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{m\times p}$ given by $T(A,B)=AB$. ...
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On a matrix inequality
$\newcommand{\R}{\mathbb R}\newcommand{\tr}{\operatorname{tr}}$It follows from Proposition 7 and this recent answer that, for any positive-definite $n\times n$ symmetric real matrices $A$ and $B$,
$$\...
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Determinant of correlation matrix of autoregressive model
I wonder if there is a paper that can point out how to compute the determinant of a $d \times d$ autoregressive correlation matrix of the form
$$R = \begin{pmatrix}
1 & r & \cdots & r^{d-...
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What methods do we have to understand the spectrum of matrices with restricted entries?
Consider questions of the form (or the "most probable value of" version of these questions rather than the "largest possible"),
What is the largest possible spectral radius of a $...
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Hölder continuity of spectrum of matrices
Endow $\mathbb{C}^{d \times d}$ with the norm induced by the Euclidean norm on $\mathbb{C}^d$. It is well-known (to those who know it well, I guess) that the spectrum $\sigma(A)$ of a matrix $A \in \...
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Attempts to define a matrix exponential over (as much as possible) general fields
Given a $n \times n$ matrix $A$ over the complex numbers, the exponential of $A$ is defined as
$$\exp(A) := \sum_{k = 1}^\infty \frac1{k!} A^k , \qquad \tag{$\star$}\label{468645_star}$$
where ...
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Monte-Carlo computation of the Smith normal form
Quite some time ago I saw an article where a Monte-Carlo algorithm for computing the Smith normal form of an integer matrix was described. In this article the following problem was posed:
Suppose $P, ...
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Factorization to sparse matrices
$\newcommand{\lrank}{\operatorname{lrank}}$
$\newcommand{\rank}{\operatorname{rank}}$
Given a matrix $A$, we can define its Hamming weight, $w(A)$, as the number of non-zero elements in it.
Now, given ...
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Divisibility properties of minors of matrices
Let $A$ be an $m\times n$ matrix with integer entries. Let $d_i(A)$ be the greatest common divisor of all $i\times i$ minors of $A$, and define $d_0(A)=1$. Whenever $i\leq j$, one has that $d_i(A)$ ...
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Generalized Courant-Fischer theorem
Consider some quaternionic matrix $A$. A right eigvenvalue of $A$ is a quaternion $q$ such that $Ax=xq$ for some $x\in \mathbb{H}^n$. Similarly, a left eigenvalue of $A$ is quaternion $q$ such that $...
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Existence of parametrizations of rational orthogonal matrices
I suppose that there are formulas which parametrize all the orthogonal matrices with rational coefficients. Does anyone know anything about it? And what are some publications that discuss this?
Thanks....
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An inequality for certain positive-semidefinite matrices
Suppose that $G=(G_{ij})$ is a positive-semidefinite symmetric matrix with the diagonal entries all equal $1$ and all off-diagonal entries $\le0$. Does it then necessarily follow that
$$\sum_{i,j}(G^5)...
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Eigenvalue density of a symmetric tridiagonal matrix
Let $A_n\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be defined as
$$
A_n=\begin{bmatrix} a & b & 0 & \cdots & \cdots & 0 & 0\\ b & a & b & \cdots & \cdots & 0 & 0\\ 0 &...
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Interpolation between two matrices so that $L^p$ norm is controlled
Assume to have two square matrices $A$ and $B$ acting on $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that all their entries are in the interval $[0,1]$ and such that $||Ax||_1 = ||x||_1$ and $||Bx||_\infty \leq ||x||_\infty$....
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Do matrices with only elements along the main and anti-diagonals have a name?
To expand upon the title, I am wondering if there is a specific name for square matrices of the form: $$M = \begin{bmatrix} a_{11} & 0 & \cdots & 0 & \cdots & & 0 & b_{1n} ...
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On the half-skew-centrosymmetric Hadamard matrices
Definition 1: A Hadamard matrix is an $n\times n$ matrix $H$ whose entries are either $1$ or $-1$ and whose rows are mutually orthogonal.
Definition 2: A matrix $A$ is half-skew-centrosymmetric if ...
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Rank-constrained least-squares solution of the Sylvester matrix equation
For the Sylvester matrix equation $AX+XB=C$, I want to find the least-squares solution $X$ via
$$\begin{array}{ll} \text{minimize} & \| AX + XB - C \|_{\text{F}}^2\\ \text{subject to} & \mbox{...
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Rank of a 0-1-matrix
Suppose $K$ is a field of characteristic $0$. Let $M \in K^{n \times m}$ be a matrix such that every entry of $M$ is either $0$ or $1$. About this matrix, I know further that each sum over a column ...
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Find the inverse of a more general matrix that is similar to the Hilbert matrix
In the last MO question , the following matrix is given:
$$M_{ij}=\left[\frac{1+(-1)^{i+j}}{i+j-1}\right]$$
and its inverse has been discussed.
Now the problem is further extended to a more general ...
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Pfaffian of several skew-linear transformations / matrices
Introduction: Let's assume we have a 2-form $\alpha=(1/2)\sum_{j,k=1}^n a_{jk}\ e_j\wedge e_k$, where $n=2m$, and $a_{jk}\in\mathbb C$. We know that $\alpha^{\wedge m}=\alpha\wedge\alpha\dots\wedge\...
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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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Reference request: Oldest linear algebra books with exercises?
Inspired by the recent success of my "soft question" here, I also have to ask, what are some of the oldest linear algebra books out there with exercises? I'm fine with or without solutions, either way....
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Determinant in terms of certain $2\times 2$ minors
Let $A$ be an $n\times n$ matrix with entries $a_{i,j}$. Define an $(n-1)\times(n-1)$ matrix $B$ with entries $b_{i,j}=a_{1,1}a_{i+1,j+1}-a_{1,j+1}a_{i+1,1}$. Then $\det(B)=a_{1,1}^{n-2}\det(A)$.
I ...
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About $CW(512,16^2)$
Definitions: A weighing matrix $W = W(n,k)$ with weight $k$ is a square matrix of order $n$ and entries $w_{ij}$ in $\{0, \pm 1\}$ such that $WW^T=kI$,
where $I$ is the identity matrix. A circulant ...
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A Handbook of Matrix Factorizations
I am looking for a good collection of facts regarding the various types of matrix factorizations, something like a "Handbook of Matrix Factorizations" or a very-thorough review paper. I am hoping for ...
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Integer vectors in the kernel of an integer matrix
Let $A$ be a non-zero symmetric $n \times n$-matrix with integer entries and suppose that $\det(A) =0$.
Question: How long is the shortest non-zero integer vector in the kernel of $A$?
Example: If ...
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