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Eigenvectors as continuous functions of matrix - diagonal perturbations
The general question has been treated here, and the response was negative. My question is about more particular perturbations. The counterexamples given in the previous question have variations not ...
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Is every real matrix conjugate to a semi antisymmetric matrix?
Is it true to say that every matrix $A\in M_n(\mathbb{R})$ is similar (conjugate) to a matrix $B=(b_{ij})$ with $b_{ij}=-b_{ji}$ for all $i\neq j$?(With some abuse of terminology,a matrix $B$ with ...
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Hadamard $\ell_p$ sum of two symmetric positive semidefinite matrices
Does there exist $p>1$ such that for all $n\geq 2$, if $(a_{ij})$ and $(b_{ij})$ are symmetric positive semidefinite $n\times n$ matrices and $a_{ij}, b_{ij}\geq 0$ then $\bigl(\|(a_{ij},b_{ij})\|...
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Hadamard $\ell_p$ sum of two symmetric positive semidefinite matrices: follow-up
I asked the following question here: "Does there exist $p>1$ such that for all $n\geq 2$, if $(a_{ij})$ and $(b_{ij})$ are symmetric positive semidefinite $n\times n$ matrices and $a_{ij}, b_{ij}\...
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What is the Birkhoff norm of a Perron vector?
Let $A$ be a positive matrix. What is known about the Birkhoff norm of its Perron vector?
By the Birkhoff norm of a vector $x$ I refer to the quantity $\frac{\max{x}}{\min{x}}$.
P.S. This is ...
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Is this a full rank matrix? [closed]
According to the answer of znt to the previous version, I revise the question as follows:
Is there a real $(n-1)\times n$ matrix $A$
such that $A$ is not a full rank matrix and satisfy $a_{ii}&...
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A curious determinantal inequality
In my study, I come across the following curious inequality, which I do not know a proof yet (so I am asking it here).
Let $A, B$ be $n\times n$ (Hermitian) positive definite matrices. It is very ...
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Hlawka inequality for determinants of positive definite matrices
It is mentioned here that if $A, B, C\in M_{n}(\mathbb C)$ are positive semidefinite, then $$\det (A+B+C)+\det C\ge \det (A+C)+\det (B+C)$$ (quoted from this article) and the special case ($C=\bf 0$) $...
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2x2 subdeterminants of a matrix
If N>2, it is well known that if two invertible NxN matrices A and B have the same determinants of any 2x2 corresponding submatrices, then A=B or A=-B.
Given then all these 2x2 determinants of an ...
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Which ordering of factors is needed to obtain this kind of determinantal inequalities?
Let $A$ and $B$ be $n\times n$ Hermitian positive definite matrices. The curious determinantal inequality given here, which can be stated as $$\det (A^{4}+ ABBA+BAAB+B^{4})\ge\det(A^{4}+ AABB+BBAA+B^{...
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Inverse of a small submatrix
Let $A$ be a large matrix (say, $1000 \times 1000$), and let $\mathcal I = \{2,3,5\}$ be a set of row/column indices. Let $(A^{-1})_{\cal I \times I}$ denote the submatrix of $A^{-1}$ that consists of ...
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Reverse Minkowski (and related) Determinant Inequalities
For positive semidefinite matrices $A,B,C \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$, the following inequalities are well known:
$$(\det(A+B))^{1/n} \geq (\det A)^{1/n} + (\det B)^{1/n} $$
and
$$\det(A+B+C) + \...
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Nuclear norm as minimum of Frobenius norm product
Nuclear, or trace, or Ky Fan, norm of a matrix is defined as the sum of the singular values of the matrix.
It is claimed that
$$
\|X\|_\sigma = \min_{UV^T=X} \|U\|\|V\| = \min_{UV^T=X} \frac{1}{2}(\|...
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Minimum distance of a symmetric matrix to diagonal matrices
Let $A=(a_{ij})$ be an arbitrary $n \times n$ real symmetric matrix and $n\geq 2$. Let $\| \cdot \|$ denote the operator $2$-norm or equivalently the maximum absolute value of eigenvalues for ...
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Norm of triangular truncation operator on rank deficient matrices
Let $T_{n\times n}$ be a triangular truncation matrix, i.e.
$$T_{i,j}=\begin{cases}1 & i\ge j\\ 0 & i<j \end{cases}$$
It is known that for arbitrary $A_{n\times n}$
$$\|T\circ A\|\le\frac{\...
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Singular value decomposition of truncated discrete Fourier transform matrix
Let $\mathbf{F}$ be a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) matrix such that
\begin{align}
F_{m,n}=e^{-j2\pi(m-1)(n-1)/N},\quad m,n=1,\ldots,N.
\end{align}
What we can say about the singular value ...
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Solving $\text{trace}\left[\left(I + pY\right)^{-1} \left(I - p^{2}Y\right)\right] = 0$ for scalar $p$
For given $n\times n$ real symmetric positive definite matrices $X_{1}, X_{2}$, let $Y := X_{1}^{-1}X_{2}$, and let $I$ be the identity matrix.
I would like to solve the following equation for the ...
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Extension of the Gershgorin circle theorem for symmetric matrices and localization of positive eigenvalues
In mathematics, the Gershgorin circle theorem can be used to localize eigenvalues of a matrix (including symmetric). Let $A$ be a real symmetry $n × n$ matrix, with entries $a_{ij}$. For $i∈{1,…,n}$ ...
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Derivative of log determinant [closed]
Let $x_i \in\mathbb{R}^d$ and $a_i\in [0,1]$ for $i = 1,\dots,k$. How to compute the following derivative?
$$
\frac{d}{da_j}\log \det\left(\sum_{i = 1}^k a_ix_ix_i^\top\right).
$$
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