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functors $\text{Vect} \to \text{Vect}$ that preserve filtered and sifted colimits
I'm considering various functors from the category $\text{Vect}$ of real vector spaces to itself, and would like to know that they preserve filtered colimits and possibly even sifted colimits. The ...
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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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Reference for a formula expressing the characteristic polynomial of a sum of endomorphisms
Let $R$ be a ring, $A$ a (not necessarily commutative) $R$-algebra and $M$ a (left) A-module which is free of finite rank as an $R$-module. If $a\in A$ then multiplication with $a$ on $M$ is an $R$-...
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What is the total polarization of the determinant?
Let $A\in\mathfrak{gl}(\mathbb{R},n)$ be an endomorphism, and think up to conformal factors (in particular, $\Lambda^n\mathbb{R}^n$ will be the same as $\mathbb{R}$). By the total polarization $\...
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$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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Calculating a curvature tensor by polarization
I'm reading some articles by Siu and Nannicini on the Weil-Petersson metric associated to families of compact Kahler-Einstein manifolds. In each article Siu and Nannicini construct a Weil-Petersson ...
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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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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 $B$,
$$\...
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Representability of polymatroids over $GF(2)$
A polymatroid is a finite set $X$ and a rank function $d : P(X) \to {\mathbb N}$ such that
1) $d(\varnothing)=0$,
2) $A \subset B$ implies $d(A) \leq d(B)$, and
3) $d(A \cap B) + d(A \cup B) \leq d(...
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Operator compression preserving lowest energy eigenspace.
I have a large ($10^6$ by $10^6$) sparse ($0.4$% nonzero) hermitian matrix $H$ arising from the discretization of an elliptic PDE. I would like to approximate $H$ with a smaller matrix $H'$ in such a ...
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Composite residues with determinant denominators
I am looking for a good reference on composite residues of multi-variable contour integrals (something better and more explicit than Griffiths and Harris or Tsikh). This means I want to evaluate $\...
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Approximate singular value decomposition in Banach spaces
I am interested in generalisations to Banach spaces of the following construction, which relates to the singular value decomposition of a finite-dimensional linear map. If $V$, $W$ are finite-...
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Laplace-like / cofactor expansion for Pfaffian
Wikipedia presents a recursive definition of the Pfaffian of a skew-symmetric matrix as $$ \operatorname{pf}(A)=\sum_{{j=1}\atop{j\neq i}}^{2n}(-1)^{i+j+1+\theta(i-j)}a_{ij}\operatorname{pf}(A_{\hat{\...
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Reference request: "Higher order eigentuples" as generalized eigenvectors?
I stumbled upon a cute generalization of the eigenvalue problem and would like to know if anybody has seen something like this and can provide references.
The eigenvalue problem for a square matrix $M$...
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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
$$R = \begin{pmatrix}
1 & r & \cdots & r^{d-...
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Reference for Tate vector spaces
... aka locally linear compact vector spaces. The one reference I know is http://www.math.harvard.edu/~gaitsgde/grad_2009/SeminarNotes/Nov3-10(CentExt).pdf. Does anyone know another good reference?
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Minimum negative eigenvalue of zero-one matrices
The following question must have been answered decades ago.
For $n$ fixed, what is the most negative eigenvalue among all trace zero zero-one matrices (that is, all entries are either zero or one, ...
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Generalized Rayleigh-quotient gradient flow on Grassmannian
The following theorem appears without proof in :
Helmke, Uwe, and John B. Moore. Optimization and dynamical systems. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.
Let $A$ be a symmetric $n\times n$ ...
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What methods do we have to understand the spectrum of matrices with restricted entries?
Consider questions of the form (or the "most probable value of" version of these questions rather than the "largest possible"),
What is the largest possible spectral radius of a $...
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"Unimodality" of the positive eigenvector of a non-negative irreducible matrix?
Consider an eigenvalue / eigenvector problem for a matrix $A$ that is known to be non-negative and irreducible (so the Perron-Frobenius theorem applies):
$$\sum_j A_{ij} x_j = \lambda x_i$$
Here $\...
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Lipschitz-continuity of convex polytopes under the Hausdorff metric
Recently, I proved the following Lipschitz-continuity like result for convex polytopes:
Let $A\in\mathbb R^{m\times n}$ and $b,b'\in\mathbb R^m$ be given such that $\{x\,:\,Ax\leq 0\}=\{0\}$ (which ...
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Hölder continuity of spectrum of matrices
Endow $\mathbb{C}^{d \times d}$ with the norm induced by the Euclidean norm on $\mathbb{C}^d$. It is well-known (to those who know it well, I guess) that the spectrum $\sigma(A)$ of a matrix $A \in \...
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Zariski-closed subsemigroups of SL_n(C) are groups
I would like to show that any Zariski-closed subsemigroup of $SL_n(\mathbb{C})$ is a group. If I understand correctly, this is consequence 1.2.A of http://www.heldermann-verlag.de/jlt/jlt03/BOSLAT.PDF ...
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Full expansion of $\det(I+\varepsilon A)$
It is well known that given a $n \times n$ matrix $A$, it holds that
$$ \det(I + \varepsilon A)= 1 + \varepsilon \operatorname{tr}(A) + O(\varepsilon ^2).$$
I would need a full representation of $ \...
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An elementary inequality of operators
Suppose $a,b$ are two positive-definite linear operators on (say) $\mathbb R^n$. For $p\in(0,1)$, do we then have $(a+b)^p\leq a^p+b^p$ (with respect to the Loewner order)?
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How often does a pair of linear maps generate a Zariski-dense subgroup of $GL(d,\mathbb{R})$?
I am an analyst working on a number of problems which in some way relate to random matrix products. In this context I frequently find that the analytic properties I am interested in depend in some way ...
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A numerical matrix of power sum polynomials
Let $p_i=x_1^i+x_2^i+\cdots+x_m^i=\sum_{k=1}^mx_k^i$ be the power sum polynomials. Then, the determinant of the $m\times m$ Hankel matrix $M_m=(p_{i+j-2})$, for $1\leq i,j\leq m$, has a neat ...
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Sum of divisors and LCM in determinants
$\newcommand{\lcm}{\operatorname{lcm}}$Let $\gcd(i,j)$ and $\lcm(i,j)$ be the greatest common divisor and least common multiple of the pair of positive integers $i$ and $j$. Denote the sum of divisors ...
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Linear independence over field of rational functions
To prove that functions $f_1(x), \dots, f_n(x)$ with $x \in \mathbb R$ are linearly independent, we only need to show that the Wronskian of these functions is non-zero at a certain value of $x$. Now ...
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Attempts to define a matrix exponential over (as much as possible) general fields
Given a $n \times n$ matrix $A$ over the complex numbers, the exponential of $A$ is defined as
$$\exp(A) := \sum_{k = 1}^\infty \frac1{k!} A^k , \qquad \tag{$\star$}\label{468645_star}$$
where ...
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An inequality for certain positive-definite matrices
Suppose that $G=(G_{ij})$ is an $n\times n$ positive-definite symmetric matrix with the diagonal entries all equal $1$ and all off-diagonal entries $\le0$. Let $a$ be a column $n\times1$ matrix with ...
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Rings $R$ such that every [regular] square matrix with entries in $R$ is equivalent to an upper triangular matrix
Let $\text{M}_n(R)$ be the ring of $n$-by-$n$ matrices with entries in a commutative unital ring $R$. Theorem III in
C.R. Yohe, Triangular and Diagonal Forms for Matrices over Commutative ...
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Unpublished work of Wielandt
Wielandt wrote a paper titled "Remarks on diagonable matrices".
According to Mathematische Werke - Mathematical Works : Linear Algebra and Analysis
by Helmut Wielandt, Hans Schneider, Bertram Huppert ...
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Families of subsets whose characteristic vectors are spanning sets
Let $X$ be a finite set and $\mathbb CX$ be a vector space with basis $X$. If $Y\subseteq X$ is a subset, then by the characteristic vector of $Y$ I mean $\sum_{y\in Y}y$.
My question is:
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Relationship between spectral gaps of adjacency and Laplacian matrices of graphs
Let $G$ be an undirected simple graph on $n$ vertices, with self-loops allowed, and with arbitrary positive edge weights $w_{u,v}$ (which is $0$ if there is no edge between $u$ and $v$).
Let $A$ be ...
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Determinantal questions on Alternate Sign Matrices
Let $\mathcal{A}_n$ be the set of all Alternating Sign Matrices (ASM) of size $n\times n$. The cardinality $\#\mathcal{A}_n$ is well-known
$$\#\mathcal{A}_n=\prod_{k=0}^{n-1} \frac{(3k+1)!}{(n+k)!}.$$
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Example of nice isomorphism between Cl$_{p,q}(\mathbb R)$ and matrix algebras over $\mathbb R,\mathbb C,\mathbb H,\mathbb R^2,\mathbb C^2,\mathbb H^2$
$\DeclareMathOperator\Cl{Cl}$It is known that every Clifford Algebra $\Cl(Q)$ over the real numbers where $Q: \mathbb R^n \to \mathbb R$ is a non-degenerate quadratic form is isomorphic to a matrix ...
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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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Lambek calculus, linear logic, and linear algebra
In his 1958 paper, The Mathematics of Sentence Structure, Joachim Lambek introduced the Lambek calculus. In modern terms, it could be understood as a syntax for biclosed
monoidal categories, and he ...
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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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determinants and polynomials in matrices
Muirhead (1982, "Aspects of Multivariate Statistical Theory") references on page 59
a result (from MacDuffee, 1943, chap 3, "Vectors and Matrices") a book I cannot find):
" The only polynomials in ...
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Constant rank theorem for Banach spaces
Is there a similar statement to the constant rank theorem for finite dimensional real smooth manifolds which holds for a smooth map $F:B \rightarrow M$ where $B$ is an infinite (countable) dimensional ...
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adjoint of multiplication operator in a commutative algebra
Dan Popescu asked me the following question, and since I'm not an expert I'm throwing his question on MO.
Suppose that $A$ is a finite-dimensional vector space over an ordered field $k$ with $\...
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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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