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What can be said about the relationship between the eigenvalues of a negative definite matrix and of its Schur complement?
I have two problems related to eigenvalues of negative definite matrices:
I have a matrix $M\prec0$ (symmetric and all eigenvalues are negative) and $S=M_{11}-M_{12}M_{22}^{-1}M_{21}$ by taking $M=[...
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Largest Eigenvalue of a Matrix with Special Form in terms of n
In one step of solving a difficult problem, I would like to know the largest eigenvalue of a matrix with this pattern:
$$A_n = \begin{bmatrix}
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 &\dots & 0 \\
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How to find the analytical representation of eigenvalues of the matrix $G$?
I have the following matrix arising when I tried to discretize the Green function， now to show the convergence of my algorithm I need to find the eigenvalues of the matrix $G$ and show it has absolute ...
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What can we say about the rank of the sum of a multiple of the identity matrix and a symmetric rank-$1$ matrix? [closed]
Suppose we have the following symmetric matrix.
$$A = \sigma^2 I + u u^T$$
What can we say about the eigendecomposition of $A$?
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Sufficient conditions for all eigenvalues simple in stochastic matrix
The "largest" eigenvalue $1$ of a stochastic matrix is well-characterized by the classical Perron-Frobenius theorem. In particular, it gives sufficient conditions for the eigenvalue $1$ to be simple.
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How to find eigenvalues of following block matrices?
Is there a procedure to find the eigenvalues of A?
$$A=\begin{bmatrix}X & I &&&&&&&&& 0\\I & 0 & P &&&&&&&&\\& P^t ...
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Rotatable matrix, its eigenvalues and eigenvectors
We say that a real matrix is rotatable iff after turning it clockwise on $90^{\circ}$ it doesn't change.
I'm interesting about eigenvalues and eigenvectors (belonging to non-zero eigenvalues) of such ...
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Maximizing a certain eigenvalue ratio
Let $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be an Hurwitz stable matrix (i.e., the spectrum of $A$ lies on the left-half complex plane) and let $P$ be the unique positive definite solution of the following ...
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Eigenvalues of special sum of Hermitian matrices
In my research on linear algebra and its applications, I have come across the following problem which has stumped me:
Let $ A $ be a positive definite matrix and let $ D $ be a positive diagonal ...
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Limit of eigenvalues of a matrix perturbation sequence
Suppose $H$ is an $n\times n$ symmetric positive definite matrix, $M_k$ is a sequence of $n \times n$ matrix (not necessarily symmetric) such that $M_k \to O$ where $O$ is the zero matrix. Let $\...
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Lower bound on the eigenvalues of the Laplacian
I am looking for a graph for which $2 d_{i} < \mu_{i}$, for some index $i$, where $\mu_{1} \leq \mu_{2} \leq \dots\leq \mu_{n}$ are the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix $L(G)$ and $d_{1} \leq d_{...
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« Generalized simultaneous diagonalization » of a pair of symmetric, non-commuting, positive semi-definite matrices
I hope my question is trivial for some of you but for the time being I’m lost somewhere between the generalized eigenproblem, simultaneous diagonalization of quadratic forms, simultaneous SVD, ...
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Upper bound on matrix perturbation such that all eigenvalues lie within the unit circle
Consider the matrix
$$N=\left[\matrix{\mathbb{I}_n-\epsilon L & X\\ \epsilon Y & Z}\right]$$
where $\epsilon>0$ is a small positive parameter and $Z$ is a square $m\times m$ matrix with ...
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Eigenvalues of a specific Hankel matrix
I have an $\frac{N}{2} \times \frac{N}{2}$ matrix $G$ with entries given by
\begin{equation}
G_{ij} = \frac{1}{\sin(\frac{\pi}{N}(i+j-\frac{3}{2}))}, \;\;\;\;\;\;\;\; 1 \le i,j \le \frac{N}{2},
\end{...
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Checking positive semi-definiteness of integer matrix
Key Problem : Is there any theorem about eigenvalues or positive semi-definiteness of small size matrices with small integer elements?
I have to check positive semi-definiteness of many symmetric ...
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Bounds for eigenvalues of block matrix
Let's say I have a block matrix of the form
$$X = \begin{bmatrix} A & B\\ B^T & C\end{bmatrix}$$
where $A$, $C$, and $X$ are all positive definite. I have bounds on both the minimum and ...
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Existence of double eigenvalue
Let $A$ and $B$ be complex $4\times 4$ matrices. Assume both are Hermitian, and that they are linearly independent.
Must there exist a nonzero real linear combination $aA + bB$ which has a repeated ...
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Empirical approaches to validate observational bounds on minimum gap between least eigenvalues of $n \times n$ correlation matrix and its submatrices
Let
$\Sigma$ be an $n \times n$ correlation matrix whose least eigenvalue is denoted by $\lambda$.
$\Sigma_i'$ be an $(n-1) \times (n-1)$ submatrix of $\Sigma$ obtained by eliminating the $i$-th row ...
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Bound on gap between least eigenvalues of $n \times n$ correlation matrix and of its $(n -1) \times (n-1)$ submatrices
The following problem is motivated by one of my research problems.
Let
$\Sigma$ be an $n \times n$ correlation matrix whose least eigenvalue is denoted by $\lambda$.
$\Sigma_i'$ be an ...
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Find eigenvalues with given multiplicity in presence of errors
Let $A^0$ a $3 \times 3$ real symmetric matrix with eigenvalues $\lambda_1^0 = \lambda_2^0 \neq \lambda_3^0$. Hence, $\lambda_1^0$ has multiplicity $2$.
In real-world applications, I will have a ...
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Eigenvalue perturbation theory via Feynman diagrams
Suppose I have a matrix given by a sum
$$A=D+\epsilon B$$
where $D$ is diagonal and $\epsilon$ is small, and I want the eigenvalues of $A$ as a power series in $\epsilon$. The first two orders in ...
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Eigenvalues of block-hermitian matrices with zero diagonal blocks
I have a matrix of the form
$$D = \left( \begin{array}{cc} 0 & C \\ C^{\dagger} & 0 \end{array} \right)$$
where $C$ is not necessarily hermitian. In general, can we say anything about the ...
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Finding the nearest matrix with real eigenvalues
In this thread on MATLAB Central, I found a discussion on finding the nearest matrix with real eigenvalues. The first hypothesis was to simply truncate the complex part of the eigenvalues. So, given ...
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Bound the eigenvalue of product of matrices?
Let $H$ be a $n \times n$ real symmetric matrix that has eigenvalues with absolute value less than 1. Define the matrix $M = \prod_{i=1}^n (I - e_ie_i^{\top}H)$ where $e_i$ denotes the $i^\text{th}$ ...
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What is the time complexity of the largest singular value and its vectors?
Full zero-error SVD on an $m \times n$ matrix $A$ would cost $O(\min(m^2n,mn^2))$. What is the time complexity if we need only the largest singular value and its corresponding vectors? I think it is $...
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Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of nonsymmetric complex tridiagonal matrix
I wonder if it is possible to find analytically all eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the following $2n \times 2n$ non-symmetric complex tridiagonal matrix
$$M = i \begin{pmatrix}
0 & a & 0 &...
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Is the sum of two stable matrices also stable?
Let $A$ and $B$ be two arbitrary real matrices of the same dimension. If the eigenvalues of $A$ and $B$ are all in the left half of the complex plane, can we estimate the the location of the ...
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Maximum eigenvalue of Hadamard power of a positive semidefinite matrix
Let $K$ be a covariance matrix. It is positive semidefinite, its diagonal elements are all 1, and its off-diagonals are between -1 and 1. Let $K.^2$ be its element-wise power (Hadamard power). Can we ...
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Proving that a certain non-symmetric matrix has an eigenvalue with positive real part
Suppose that
$X$ is the $n \times n$ matrix of all ones
$Y$ is an arbitrary $n \times n$ matrix with zeroes on the diagonal and all other entries equal to $0$ or $1$
$0 < \delta < 1$
Let $Z = ...
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SOLVED: Multiplicity of the eigenvalues of the sum of two matrices [closed]
* Question Solved *
This question ultimately was about the conditions for violation of the Wigner-von Neumann non-crossing rule, which is still an open field of research.
Thank you very much to all ...
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Commutation relation and eigenvectors of infinite matrices [closed]
I'm given the Matrix $A$ and $A^T$:
$A =
\begin{bmatrix}
0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & \dots \\
0 & 0 & \sqrt{2} & 0 & \dots \\
0 & 0 & 0 & \sqrt{3} & \...
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Eigenvalues of leading principal submatrix of the Clement-Kac-Sylvester tridiagonal matrix
It's well-known that the eigenvalues of the Clement-Kac-Sylvester tridiagonal matrix
$$\begin{pmatrix}
0 & n-1 & 0 & \dots & 0 \\\
1 & 0 & n-2 & \dots & 0\\\
0 & ...
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A question on the smallest singular value
Let $X(r)$ be the set of matrices $A \in M(n \times m)$, $n \leq m$, such that the norm of $A$ (largest singular value) is smaller or equal than $1$ and the smallest singular value of $A$ is smaller ...
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convergence of 2nd eigenvalue
Fix $0<h_1<h_2<h_3<1$ reals. All matrices below are $3\times3$ real.
Suppose the sequence of matrices $M(n)$ are symmetric positive definite and these converge (point-wise) to a symmetric ...
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Showing that a certain matrix is not positive definite
Let $J_k$ be a $k \times k$ all ones matrix and $B$ any $k \times k$ binary matrix - that is $B$ only has entries from $\{0,1\}$.
I would like to show that the matrix $$X_B = (J_k -I) - B (J_k - I)^{-...
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Center of matrices
I encountered a neat problem in a problem in particle physics
So given $n$ skew symmetric matrices $A_1,...,A_n$ in $\mathbb{C}^{d \times d}.$
I would like to call this the commutator property: $...
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No arbitrary product of matrices has eigenvalue 1?
Consider the matrix $D$, adjacency matrix of an undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, with the notation that $d_{i,i}=0,\forall i$.
The matrices $A_i$ are constructed from Identity matrices, $I_{n*n}$...
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Eigenvalues of cyclic tridiagonal matrix [closed]
The following matrix is the result of a special kind of balanced signed graph of order $n$. In the Matrix $n_1,n_2,..,n_k$ are positive integers, which satisfy $\sum
n_i=n.$ Prove that this matrix ...
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Modified interlacing of eigenvalues
Let $A$ be a real symmetric matrix of order $n$ and $B=\begin{bmatrix}v &v &v &v\end{bmatrix}$ where $v$ is a non zero real column vector of dimension $n$. Consider $$C=\begin{bmatrix}A &...
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Find a square, stochastic matrix of odd size, not a permutation matrix, with an eigenvalue other than 1 on the unit circle
...or prove that none exists.
Note that such a matrix $M$ couldn't be primitive, so there would be at least one entry equal to zero in every power $M^k$ (Perron-Frobenius theory).
Preferably the ...
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Exact eigenvalues of a specific tridiagonal matrix
I'm studying the following tri-diagonal matrix
$$
X = \begin{pmatrix}
0 & x_0 & 0 & 0 &\cdots & 0 & 0 & 0 \\\
x_0 & 0 & x_1 & 0 &\cdots & 0 & ...
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Eigenvalues of large tridiagonal matrix
Consider large tridiagonal matrix (where $a$ and $b$ are real numbers):
$$M =
\begin{pmatrix}
a^2 & b & 0 & 0 & \cdots \\
b & (a+1)^2 & b & 0 & \cdots & \\
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Eigenvectors of a perturbed reducible stochastic matrix
Let $Q$ be a $n\times n$ reducible stochastic matrix. Let $J$ be such that $[J]_{ij}={1 \over n}$. Now for a small positive constant $\alpha\in [0,1]$, consider the matrix
$$\tilde{Q}\,=\,(1-\alpha)...
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Relation between eigenvalues of $A$ and $A^TA$?
For an $n\times n$ diagonizable matrix $A$, is there a relation between the eigenvalues of $A$ and the eigenvalues of $A^TA$?
I ask this because I am looking into the relation between $A$ and $A+cI$, ...
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Eigenvalues of product of symplectic matrices
I have 2 symplectic matrices $X_{1},X_{2} \in \mathbb{R}^{2n\times2n}$. The matrix $X=X_{1} \cdot X_{2}$ is also symplectic.
Question: Are there any theorems which allow me to express eigenvalues of ...
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Sum of the absolute eigenvalues of A>=B
Kindly help me to prove/disprove the following statement.
Let $A$ be a symmetric matrix of order $n \times n$ with all the diagonal entry equal to $0$, and other non-diagonal entry equal to $k$ (...
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Can a block matrix with at least 3 zero blocks of different size on the diagonal and 1's everywhere else have only integer eigenvalues?
Let $M=\begin{pmatrix}
\begin{array}{cccccccc}
0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 &1\\
0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 &1\\
1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & ...
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Eigenvalues of real symmetric matrix [closed]
Suppose $A$ is a $n \times n$ real symmetric matrix with entries $a_{ij}\geq 1 $ and $a_{ii} = 0 $. Is it possible to have sum of the absolute eigenvalues of
$A < 2 (n - 1).$
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Upper bound for sum of absolute values of eigenvalues of Hermitian matrix
Given a hermitian, but not necessarily positive, sparse matrix $C = (c_{ij}) \in \mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$ and $n \ggg 1$ ($n \approx 2^{100}$) with eigenvalues $\lambda_1 \le \lambda_2 \le \dots \le \...
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Estimating the shift in the $\lambda_{\max}$ of a matrix under a diagonal perturbation
Given a matrix $A$ and a diagonal matrix $D$, how can we estimate $\lambda_{\max}(A+D) - \lambda_{\max}(A)$? Feel free to make other assumptions about the matrices that they are all symmetric and have ...
