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Forming real positive semidefinite matrices from complex matrices

I have asked this question on the Mathematics Stack Exchange: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4924554/forming-real-symmetric-positive-semidefinite-matrices-from-complex-matrices. Let $Q \in \...
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Reference for (general case) of uniqueness of singular value decomposition (SVD)

My statistics research requires me to understand the non-uniqueness of SVD in the degenerate case of repeated singular values. I believe that the statements and proofs on this StackExchange posts are ...
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On the eigen vectors of a diagonalizable matrix

Let us consider the space $M_n(\mathbb{C})$. By a unitary matrix $U=(u_{ij})$ we mean that $U^{-1}=(\overline{u_{ji}})$. Q. Let $U$ be a unitary matrix. I am looking for the pairs of matrices $(D,A)$ ...
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Operator norm of difference of matrix decompositions

This question is in part related to a question that I have already posed. Say I have two symmetric positive definite matrices and their respective Cholesky decompositions $\mathbf{A} = \mathbf{L}_A \...
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Subgradient chain rule

Suppose $$F:\mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R},\; F(x)=\mathrm{max}_\mathrm{eig}(C-\mbox{diag}(x)).$$ I am trying to find a subgradient of $F$ at $x_0$. A subgradient of $\mathrm{max}_\mathrm{eig}$ is given ...
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Commutant of the conjugations by unitary matrices

Let $\mathcal{L}(\mathbb{C}^{n \times n})$ denote the algebra of all linear mappings from $\mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$ to $\mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$ and let $\mathcal{C} \subseteq \mathcal{L}(\mathbb{C}^{...
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Well known matrix inequality?

I suspect that the following matrix inequality is well known, but I can't find a reference or proof: Given $n \times n$ symmetric matrices $A,B$ such that $I_n \leq A,B$, is the following true? $${...
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Inequality between nuclear norm and operator norm for positive definite matrices

I will use $\|\|_*$ to denote the nuclear norm (sum of singular values) and $\|\|_2$ to denote the operator norm / matrix 2-norm (largest singular value). Consider two positive definite $n \times n$ ...
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Create matrix containing values in [0,1] where sum of all diagonals and anti-diagonals is fixed

The problem I am facing sounds at first glance pretty simple. However, as very often, it seems more complicated than I first assumed: I want to calculate a matrix $P = (p_{j,k}) \in \mathbb{R}^{n \...
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