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A linear algebra question regarding the eigenvalues of the product of a diagonal matrix and a projection matrix
I need to prove a statement in my research. The statement seems to be fundamental linear algebra, and numerical studies in MATLAB supported this statement, but I wasn't able to prove it after a few ...
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Eigenvalues of random graphs
At time $t=0$, let $G_n(V,E)$ be a graph with $n$ vertices and $m < n$ edges. Then there exists a unique symmetric adjacency matrix $A_n$ associated with $G_n(V,E)$, defined as follows: $a_{ij} = 1$...
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Does small Perron-Frobenius eigenvalue imply small entries for integral matrices?
Suppose that $M$ is an $n \times n$ matrix where each entry is a positive integer. Then $M$ is Perron-Frobenius and so has unique largest real eigenvalue $\lambda_{\textrm{PF}}$.
Does an upper ...
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How can I calculate eigenvalues of a tridiagonal matrix? [closed]
Are there special methods to get exact eigenvalues of a tridiagonal matrix?
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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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Properties of eigenvalues of general nonnegative matrices
I am aware, that an answer to this question can be found via Perron-Frobenius theory or something very similar, but unfortunately I am far from being an expert in the field and I am unable to find the ...
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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 ...
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A log inequality for positive definite trace-one matrices
Let $\{v_i\}_{i=1}^N$ be a set of $n$-dimensional real vectors and let $X=X^\top\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be a positive definite trace-one matrix. I would like to prove (or disprove) the following ...
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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:
$$A_n = \begin{bmatrix}
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 &\dots & 0 \\
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Showing that a certain matrix is not positive definite
Let $J_k$ be a $k \times k$ all ones matrix and $B$ any $k \times k$ binary matrix - that is $B$ only has entries from $\{0,1\}$.
I would like to show that the matrix $$X_B = (J_k -I) - B (J_k - I)^{-...
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How to find eigenvalues of following block matrices?
Is there a procedure to find the eigenvalues of A?
$$A=\begin{bmatrix}X & I &&&&&&&&& 0\\I & 0 & P &&&&&&&&\\& P^t ...
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Integer matrices with no integer eigenvalues
Let $$A = \begin{pmatrix} 3&1 \\ 0&1 \end{pmatrix}$$ and $$B = \begin{pmatrix} 1&0\\ 1&2 \end{pmatrix}$$ I want to show that the only elements of the semigroup generated by $A$ and $B$...
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Eigenvalues of symmetric tridiagonal matrices with identical off diagonal elements
Is there a simple analytical solution to obtain eigenvalues (and eigenvectors) for this type of tridiagonal matrices ? ( Off diagonal elements are identical and the matrix is symmetric)
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\begin{...
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Largest eigenvalue of the sum of Hermitian matrices [closed]
Is there an expression for the largest eigenvalue of the sum of two Hermitian matrices in terms of the spectrum of the same matrices?
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Connection between eigenvalues of matrix and its Laplacian.
Hello!
There are two definitions of graph spectrum:
1) Eigenvalues of adjacency matrix $A$.
2) Eigenvalues of Laplacian of adjacency matrix ($L$).
Different sources offer different properties based ...
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The singular values of the Hilbert matrix
The $n\times n$ Hilbert matrix $H$ is defined as follows
$$H_{ij} = \frac{1}{i+j-1}, \qquad 1\leq i,j\leq n$$
What is known about the singular values $\sigma_1 \geq \cdots \geq \sigma_n$ of $H$?
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When does a row standardized adjacency matrix have a real spectrum?
A colleague in spatial statistics was looking at a map with about 600 regions. For the application she's considering, the induced adjacency matrix had some undesirable properties (where two regions ...
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Eigenvalues of directed Laplacian matrix $L$ and $DL$, where $D$ is a diagonal matrix with positive entries
I have a weighted Laplacian matrix $L$ of a strongly connected directed graph and a diagonal matrix $D$ with positive entries. Since the graph is directed, $L$ is non-symmetric real. Further, since ...
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convergence of 2nd eigenvalue
Fix $0<h_1<h_2<h_3<1$ reals. All matrices below are $3\times3$ real.
Suppose the sequence of matrices $M(n)$ are symmetric positive definite and these converge (point-wise) to a symmetric ...
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Spectrum of this block matrix
Consider the following block matrix
$$A = \left(\begin{matrix} B & T\\ T & 0 \end{matrix} \right)$$
where all submatrices are square and
matrix $B = \mbox{diag}\left(b_1 ,0,0,\dots,0,b_n \...
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Eigendecomposition of $A=I+BDB^H$
Suppose that we have $$A = I_m + BDB^H$$ where matrix $A$ is $m \times m$, matrix $B$ is $m \times k$, $BB^H \neq I_m$ and $D$ is a $k \times k$ diagonal matrix. Can we obtain the eigendecomposition ...
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Minimize a vector from a matrix operation
I want to minimize a certain vector that results from a matrix operation with some constraints and i don't exactly know how to tackle this problem.
Lets say we have
$$
(L+A)*s = v
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L is the ...
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Find parameter values for which a 3x3 matrix has a triple eigenvalue
An Exceptional point generally occurs in eigenvalue problems in which the matrix is dependent on some parameter(s). The particular point in which the eigenvalues become degenerate for the parameter(s) ...
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Smallest eigenvalue for Gram matrix of unit norm matrices
Given $n$ symmetric matrices $A_1, \dots, A_n \in \mathbb{R}^{k\times k}$, such that $\|A_i\| \leq 1$ for all $i$, we consider the matrix $M \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$, where $M_{ij} = \langle A_i, ...
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Can we attain the maximum and minimum of a Rayleigh quotient over any subspace? [closed]
Let $M\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ be a Hermitian matrix and let $E$ be a subspace of $\mathbb{C}^n$.
$$\mbox{Are } \sup_{x\in E\\
x\neq0}\dfrac{x^*Mx}{x^*x}\mbox{ and }\inf_{x\in E\\
x\neq0}\dfrac{x^*...
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The maximal eigenvalue of a symmetric Toeplitz matrix
Let $0\le x\le 1$ be a real number. Denote by $A_n(x)=(a_{ij})$ the $n$ by $n$ matrix such that $a_{ij}=x^{|i-j|}$ and let $\lambda_n(x)$ be the maximal eigenvalue of $A_n(x)$.
Is there any ...
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Largest eigenvalue of product of orthogonal-projection rank-1 perturbation
Suppose I have a symmetric positive definite matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ with $n$ linearly indepedent columns $a_1,...a_n$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. All columns $a_i$ has norm 1, but they are not ...
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Bound the eigenvalue of product of matrices?
Let $H$ be a $n \times n$ real symmetric matrix that has eigenvalues with absolute value less than 1. Define the matrix $M = \prod_{i=1}^n (I - e_ie_i^{\top}H)$ where $e_i$ denotes the $i^\text{th}$ ...
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Eigenvalues of random matrix conditional on positive definiteness
Consider the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble, considered as a probability measure $\mu$ on the space of real symmetric matrices. Let $\mu|PD$ denote this measure conditioned on the event that the matrix ...
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Bounds for eigenvalues of block matrix
Let's say I have a block matrix of the form
$$X = \begin{bmatrix} A & B\\ B^T & C\end{bmatrix}$$
where $A$, $C$, and $X$ are all positive definite. I have bounds on both the minimum and ...
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Maximum singular value of a random $\pm 1$ matrix
Define a matrix $\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ such that each element is independently and randomly chosen with probability $\frac 12$ to be either $+1$, or $-1$. Do you know any result in ...
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Connections between eigenvalues of $B$ and $A+iB$
Consider two symmetric and real matrices $A,B\in\mathbb{R}^n$ and definie $A+iB$. Note that $A+iB$ is not hermitian in this case. There are many results based on Brendixson and Courant-Fischer, saying,...
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Characterisation of Coxeter matrices with all non-real eigenvalues having absolute value 1
Let $C$ be an invertible integer matrix. Then a matrix $M$ is called Coxeter matrix (following Sato in https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024379505001709?via%3Dihub ) when $M=-C^{-1} ...
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Relation between the algebraic multiplicity of an eigenvalue and the subdiagonal elements of a symmetric tridiagonal matrix [closed]
Show that if $T$ is a symmetric tridiagonal matrix and an eigenvalue $\lambda$ has multiplicity $k$, then at least $k−1$ subdiagonal elements of $T$ are zero.
If we consider a submatrix $B$ that has ...
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Leading eigenvector value problem as an optimisation problem for asymmetric matrices
As noted in 1806.05647, given a symmetric matrix $A$, the leading eigenvector value problem (LEVP)
$$Av = \lambda v,$$
where $A = A^T \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$, $\lambda$ is the largest ...
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Eigenvalues of A^T D A for positive A and diagonal D
Suppose I have a diagonal matrix $D$ whose entries are bounded in absolute value. I also have a matrix $A$ that is positive (entry-wise, so $A_{ij} > 0\ \forall\ i,j$): one can assume that the ...
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Dimension (manifold) of matrices with exact $r$ positive and $r$ negative eigenvalues
For the vector space $M_{n,n}(\mathbb{C})$ of $n\times n$ matrices we know that the subset
$$M_{2r}:= \{A\in M_{n,n}(\mathbb{C}) \mid \mbox{rank} (A) = 2r \}$$
is a manifold of dimension $2n(2r)-(...
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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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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},
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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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Upper bound on some eigenvalue problem
Let $A_1,\ldots,A_m \in R^{n\times n}$ be symmetric and positive semidefinite, and suppose that their sum $A$ is positive definite. For some nonzero vector $u\in R^n$ with $u^TA_ju>0$ for all $j$, ...
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Are inverse eigenvalue problems (IEPs) hopeless and not a fruitful area of research?
I've been studying IEPs, in particular, the Nonnegative Inverse Eigenvalue Problem, some basic theoretical framework, the many open questions that IEPs have, and now sort of realize the computational ...
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Transformations preserving the number of distinct eigenvalues
Let $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be an $n\times n$ symmetric, invertible matrix with nonnegative real entries, $\mathbf{1}$ be the all one $n$-dimensional vector, and $\mathrm{diag}(v)$, $v=[v_1,v_2,\...
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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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« 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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Eigenvalues of non-negative block matrices
$B$ is a non-negative irreducible block matrix as follows:
$$B=
\left[
\begin{array}{c|c|c}
0 &B_{12}&B_{13}\\
\hline
B_{21}& 0& B_{23}\\
\hline
B_{31}& B_{32}&0
\end{array}
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Energy of a symmetric matrix with $0$, $1$ or $-1$ entries
I have a symmetric matrix with entries $0$, $1$ or $-1$ which appeared in my works in graph theory (the diagonal entries are all zero). I need a good upper bound for the energy of this matrix; i.e. "...
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How do eigenvalues change if we duplicate a row and column of a symmetric matrix?
Let $\bf A$ be a $n \times n$ symmetric positive semidefinite matrix whose first column is denoted by ${\bf a}_1$. We define a new matrix,
$$ {\bf B} = \begin{bmatrix} a_{11} & {\bf a}_1^T \\ {\bf ...
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Is there a method to find a vector that optimizes a Rayleigh quotient over a subspace?
Let $M\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ be an arbitary Hermitian matrix and let $E$ be a subspace of $\mathbb{C}^n$.
Is there a method to find vectors $y,z\in E$ such that
$$\dfrac{y^*My}{y^*y}=\sup_{x\in E\\...
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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 ...
