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Reference request: continuity of Cholesky factor

It most books dealing with Cholesky decomposition, or it is variants, one finds a statement of the form if $A$ is symmetric $k\times k$ positive semi-definite (non-negative definite) then the $k\times ...
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Can all real positive semidefinite Hankel matrices be decomposed into sum of rank 1 real positive semidefinite Hankel matrices?

Denote the set of real positive semidefinite $d\times d$ Hankel matrices as $\mathcal{S}$. Can we always decompose one $S\in \mathcal{S}$ into sum of rank $1$ $S_i\in \mathcal{S}$, i.e., $S=\sum_i S_i$...
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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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Proof of Levinson-Durbin algorithm

Is there any article or reference book with a full proof of the Levinson-Durbin algorithm used for solving linear system with a Toeplitz matrix ?
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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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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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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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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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On the sum of the first row of the inverse of a certain symmetric Toeplitz matrix

(i) Consider a Toeplitz matrix $A_n = (a_{i, j})_{1 \le i, j \le n}$ of size $n$ defined as follows: $$ a_{i, j} := |i-j|^{-1/2}, \text{ if } i \ne j; \ \ a_{i, j} := 2, \text{ if }i = j. $$ Let $...
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Maximum spectral norm of matrices with given anti-Hermitian part and Hermitian part's spectrum

Let $M\in M_n(\mathbb C)$ be a $n\times n$ matrix over the complex field. It can be written uniquely as $M=H+A$, where $H=H^*$ denotes its Hermitian part and $A=-A^*$ its anti-Hermitian part. Its ...
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Positive definiteness of infinite tridiagonal matrices

I am interested in the following problem: I have an infinite symmetric tridiagonal matrix $$ A= \begin{bmatrix} a_1 & b_1 & & & \\ b_1 & a_2 & b_2 & & \...
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Algorithms to compute the rank of a parametrized matrix [closed]

Motivated by my question on Mathematics StackExchange and by a question by Anirbit on the same site, I ask for some references on the problem of rank computation for a parametrized matrix. References ...