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Eigenvalue perturbation under sparse perturbations

Let $A \in \{0,1\}^{n \times n}$ be an irreducible matrix whose entries are in $\{0,1\}$, and let $\lambda_1(A)$ be the eigenvalue with the largest magnitude. By Perron–Frobenius theorem, we know that ...
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Dimension of the intersection of the commuting variety with a particular subspace

Let $\mathcal C$ denote the commuting variety of pairs of matrices in $M_n(\mathbb{C})$, defined as: $$ \mathcal C = \{ (A, B) \in M_n(\mathbb{C})^2 \mid [A, B] = 0 \}. $$ It is well known that $\...
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A presentation for the group $GL(n,\mathbb{Z}_p)$

Let $n\ge 2$. Let $p$ be a prime and $\mathbb{Z}_p$ denote the finite field with $p$ elements. I want to know about the presentation for the group $GL(n,\mathbb{Z}_p)$ consisting of its generators and ...
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A question in spin geometry in dimension 8

$\DeclareMathOperator\trace{trace}\DeclareMathOperator\End{End}\DeclareMathOperator\Trace{Trace}$This is to understand a very specific isomorphism in dimension $8$. In dimension $4$ for a spin$^c$ ...
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Invertibility of a matrix defined using inner product

Let $n,m \geq 1$. We fix $n$ distinct vectors $x_1, ... , x_n \in \mathbb{R}^m$. We define $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ as \begin{equation} A_{ij} = x_i^T \left(n x_j - \sum_{1 \leq k \leq n} x_k \...
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Integral hull of a polyhedron Q is polyhedron

Let $Q \subseteq R^n$ be a rational polyhedron and let $Q_I=Convexhull(Q \cap Z^n)$. By finite basis theorem, we have $Q=P+C$ for some rational polytope $P$ and finitely generated cone $C$ where $C=R_+...
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What are the points of the algebra of polynomial functions on an arbitrary vector space?

Let $V$ be an arbitrary vector space over some field $\mathbb{K}$, $V^*=\mathrm{Hom}(V,\mathbb{K})$ its linear dual. Let $\mathrm{Sym}_\mathbb{K}(V^*)$ be the free commutative $\mathbb{K}$-algebra on $...
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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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Is it possible to backtrack an optimization solver? [closed]

I have an optimization problem and was using a linear programming optimizer to find solutions. However, I find that past a certain size, the problem becomes "infeasible" and has no solutions....
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How to analyze the value of convergence of functions of random matrices?

Consider a random i.i.d matrix $\mathbf{A}_{m\times n}$ with entries generated from a complex Gaussian distribution with zero mean and unit variance. I am interested in the large dimension analysis of ...
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Eigenvalues of a certain combinatorially defined matrix

Let $A_n$ be the matrix whose rows and columns are indexed by pairs $(i,j)$ with $1\leq i,j\leq n$ and $i\neq j$ (so $A$ is an $n(n-1)\times n(n-1)$ matrix), whose $((i,j),(k,l))$-entry is 0 if $i=k$ ...
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Inequality for hermitian matrices

Let $p_1$ and $p_2$ be a complete system of orthogonal projections on $\mathbf R^n, n \geq 2$ (i.e., $p_i^2=p_i=p_i^*$ and $p_1+p_2=\bf{1}$) and $S_1, S_2$ be two hermitian operators such that $S_i \...
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Inequality for commuting hermitian operators

Let $p_1$ and $p_2$ be a complete system of orthogonal projections on $R^n$, $n\geq 2$ (i.e., $p^2_i=p_i=p^*_i$ and $p_1+p_2=\bf{1}$) and $S_1,S_2$ be two commuting hermitian operators on $R^n$ (i.e., ...
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Interpreting mincost flow dual variables

Consider the task of finding flow of size $b$ with minimum possible cost. It may be formulated as linear programming in a following way: $$\boxed{\begin{gather} \min\limits_{f_{ij} \in \mathbb R} &...
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Tensor product of two transcendental flat algebras is not a field?

I'm considering the correctness of the following assertion, which is related to linear disjointness (I'm trying to generalize it to subalgebras), What does "linearly disjoint" mean for ...
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Decay of eigenfunctions for Laplacian

Consider the discrete second derivative with Dirichlet boundary conditions on $\mathbb C^n$. Its eigendecomposition is fully known: see wikipedia It seems like the largest eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ is ...
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Prove or disprove that the matrix equation of the form $AX+XA^{-T}=0$ has a nonsingular anti-symmetric solution $X$

I’m trying to prove that for $A=J_n(i)$, that is, the Jordan block matrix corresponding to the eigenvalue $i$ of size $n$, where $n$ is even, the matrix equation $AX+XA^{-T}=0$ has a nonsingular anti-...
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Eigenfunctions of the Laplace–Beltrami operator on the coadjoint orbit of $\mathfrak{su}(n)$

$\DeclareMathOperator\SU{SU}$For $\mathfrak{su}(2,\mathbb{C})$, the generic coadjoint orbit is $\mathbb{S}^2$, and the Laplace–Beltrami operator on it is given by $$ \Delta \equiv \frac{1}{\sin\theta} ...
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Is smoothness preserved under an isometric isomorphism?

Let $(X, \|.\|_1)$ is isometrically isomorphic to $(X, \|.\|_2)$ and $\|.\|_2\leq \|.\|_1$. Assume that $x_0$ is a smooth point of $(X, \|.\|_1)$ and $\|x_0\|_2=1$. According to the definition of a ...
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Why is the second order correction to energy zero for a fully degenerate eigensystem? [closed]

Consider the system given by, $$ H|n\rangle = E|n\rangle$$ where: $H$ is the hamiltonian. $|n\rangle$ is the eigenstate. $E$ is the energy of the eigenstate. Using degenerate perturbation theory and ...
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Normalizers of the principal congruence subgroups in $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Q)$

A question quite similar to this question. Let $n \geqslant 3$ and $m \geqslant 2$ be natural numbers and suppose that a matrix $A \in \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Q)$ normalizes the principal congruence ...
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Any idea of solving an optimization problem with cubic constraints?

I have the following optimization problem with cubic constraints, which is hard to solve. Are there any ideas, or related references, of solving such a problem? $$ \begin{array}{ll} \underset {y, z} {\...
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max eigenvalue and schatten-1 norm of depolarizing channel acting on trace-0 Hermitian matrix

Denote $\mathcal{H}^n$ as the $n-$dimension Hermitian matrices. Depolarizing channel $\Delta_p:\mathcal{H}^2\to\mathcal{H}^2$ is defined as $\Delta_p(A)=p\text{ tr }(A)~I/2+(1-p)A$ where $A\in \...
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Components of a Gram matrix and its eigenvalues

The Gram Matrix is defined as $$\sum_{i=1}^n X_iX_i^T,$$ where $X_i$ is drawn from the unit sphere based according to some continuous distribution (Relation between eigenvalues and the gram matrix for ...
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Hadamard product decomposition with lower rank matrices

Given integers $k$ and $l$ and a matrix $A$ of rank $kl$, can we always find a matrix $B$ of rank $k$ and a matrix $C$ of rank $l$, such that $A$ is the Hadamard product of $B$ and $C$, namely $A=B \...
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Linear automorphism preserving a cone

Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional real vector space, and let $C\subset V$ be a closed convex cone, not contained in a hyperplane, and such that $C\cap(-C)=\{0\} $. Let $n$ be a nilpotent endomorphism of ...
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Uncomplete argument in Nishioka book

In Nishioka book "Mahler functions and transcendence" in the proof of Theorem 4.2.1, Nishioka asserts the following: For a matrix $A=(a_{i,j})_{1\le i\le m}$ with coefficients in $K[z]$ ($K$ ...
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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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Operator norm of some type of discrete Fourier matrix

Let $N$ be a natural number and let $w$ be a complex number. We define the $N\times N$ matrix $C_w=(a_{k,l})_{k,l=1}^N$ as follows, $$ a_{k,l}=\begin{cases}1 & l=k+1\\ w &...
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Is every automorphism of a cone diagonalisable?

Let $V$ be a real, finite-dimensional vector space, and let $C\subset V$ be a closed convex cone, with nonempty interior, and such that $C\cap (-C)=\{0\} $. Let $u\in\operatorname{GL}(V) $ such that $...
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Easy instance of set cover

I am trying to prove that a natural greedy algorithm solves the following instance of the set cover problem: for a set of elements $e\in U$ with a set of weights $w_e$, we define the cost of a subset ...
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How to optimize parametric information-theoretic bounds?

I am faced with an information-theoretic upper bound, such as \begin{align} \sqrt{\alpha'}2^{I_\alpha(X;Y)}, \end{align} where $I_\alpha(X;Y)$ is the Rényi mutual information with parameter $\alpha>...
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Lower bound on size of the set of sums and differences of non-orthogonal pairs of vectors over finite field

Consider $\mathbb{Z}_m^n$, an $n$-dimensional vector space over $\mathbb{Z}_m$. For two sets of vectors $P = \left\{ p^i \right\}$ and $Q = \left\{ q^j \right\}$ and a skew-symmetric matrix $S_{ij}=\...
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Matrix-tree theorem for inverse matrices

Let $L$ be the Laplacian of a directed weighted graph on $n$ nodes, e.g., for $n=4$: $$ L = \left(\begin{array}{cccc} w_{1,1}+w_{1,2}+w_{1,3}+w_{1,4} & -w_{1,2} & -w_{1,3} & -w_{1,4}\\ ...
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Eigenvalues of positive matrices in $\mathrm{SL}(d,\mathbb{Z})$

Let $A\in\operatorname{SL}(d,\mathbb{Z})$ be an irreducible positive matrix, i. e. $A=(a_{i,j})_{1\leq i,j\leq d}$ with $a_{i,j}\in\mathbb{Z}_{>0}$. From the Perron-Frobenius theorem, we know that $...
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Lower spectral radius of matrices with an invariant subspace

Let $\mathcal{A} = \{ A_1, \ldots, A_J, : A_j \in \mathbb{R}^{s\times s}\}$, and define the lower spectral radius (LSR) (aka joint subradius) by $LSR(\mathcal{A}) = \lim_{n\rightarrow\infty} \inf_{A_{...
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Can the derivative of eigenvectors with respect to its components be taken as zero if all eigenvalues are equal?

I want to ask a couple of follow up questions to the question answered on the thread "Derivative of eigenvectors of a matrix with respect to its components". I noticed that in the accepted ...
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Maximizing trace subject to two equality constraints

I am looking at the following optimization problem $$\begin{align} \underset{{\bf X}}{\text{maximize}} \qquad&\mathrm{tr}({\bf AX})\\ \text{subject to} \qquad& \mathrm{tr}({\bf X}) = 1,\\ &...
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Eigenvalue distribution of a band matrix

Let $\mathbf M_i$ be rectangular matrices of dimensions $N_{i-1}\times N_i$. We assume that their entries are random, with zero mean and variance $\sigma_i^2$. For some positive integer $k$, I define ...
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How can I derive $V$ from the following equation?

$$ [(U-V)^{-1}X^{T}Y]^{T}\;[(U-V)^{-1}X^{T}Y] = I. $$ Here $U$ and $V$ are symmetric $d \times d$ matrices; $X=[x_1,x_2,...,x_n]$ is an $n \times d$ data matrix ($n$ is the number of samples and $d$ ...
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System of linear diophantine equations with many small solutions?

Let $n$ be positive integer, $k$,$B$ fixed positive integers. Let $f_i(x_1,x_2...x_n)$ be a system of $n-k$ linearly independent linear equations over the integers. Let $S(f_i,k,B)$ be the set of ...
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Prove that $ n \leq d+1 $ under ordering constraints in $\mathbb{R}^d$

Let $x_1, \dotsc, x_n \in \mathbb{R}^d$ and $\theta_1, \dotsc, \theta_n \in \mathbb{R}^d$ be vectors such that for every $k \in [n]$, the following inequality holds: $$ \langle x_k, \theta_k \rangle &...
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Invertibility of one matrix constructed by order n subgroup of symmetric group

Let $S_n$ be the symmetric group on $n$ elements $\{ 1,2,\dotsc,n \}$ and $G$ be a subgroup of $S_n$ of order $n$. Denote the elements in $G$ by $\{ \sigma_1,\dotsc,\sigma_n \}$. Let the matrix $A=(\...
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Is there a name for "applying linear operations to vector sequences from the right"?

Let $v_1,...,v_n\in\Bbb R^d$ be a sequence of vectors. When we say that we "linearly transform" this sequence, we mean that we apply a linear transformation $T\in\Bbb R^{d\times d}$ to each ...
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Relationship between characteristic polynomials of a matrix and its adjoint representation

Let $A \in \mathrm{M}_n(F)$ be a matrix over a field $F$. Consider its adjoint representation $\mathrm{ad}_A \in \mathrm{End}(\mathrm{M}_n(F))$, defined by $$ \mathrm{ad}_A(X) = [A, X] = AX - XA. $$ I ...
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How to efficiently replace the Paterson-Stockmeyer algorithm and reduce non-scalar multiplications

Paterson-Stockmeyer algorithm If we need to compute a high-degree polynomial expression, such as: $$ P(y) = \sum_{k=0}^{B} a_k y^k $$ the Paterson-Stockmeyer algorithm can process the powers in ...
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Bounds for the difference in the number of ones in $M$ and $M^{-1}$

If $M$ is a full rank $n$ by $n$ binary matrix over $\mathbb{F}_2$, how much larger or smaller can the number of $1$s in $M^{-1}$ be, compared to the number of $1$s in $M$? Clearly the identity matrix ...
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Generalization of a result of Kostant related to Gauss decomposition and Toda lattices

I found myself needing a generalization of a result of Kostant in his famous paper B. Kostant, The solution to a generalized Toda lattice and representation theory, Adv. in Math, Volume 34, 1979, ...
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Question on a vector inequality

Is it true that $$ \min\left( \begin{aligned} &\|\mathbf{u}\| + \|\mathbf{v}\| - \|\mathbf{u} + \mathbf{v}\|, \\ &\|\mathbf{u}\| + \|\mathbf{w}\| - \|\mathbf{u} + \mathbf{w}\|, \\ &\|\...
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Determinant formula for a certain parametrized M-matrix

Let $P_{ij}$ be variables, and let $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be the matrix defined by $$ A_{ij} = \begin{cases} -P_{ij} & i \neq j,\\ P_{i1} + P_{i2} + \dots + P_{in} & i=j. \end{cases} $$...

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