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What do you call this class of matrices with a unique positive eigenvalue associated to a graph?

I am looking for the name of a class of symmetric matrices $M\in\Bbb R^{n\times n}$ that I can associate to a (finite simple) graph $G=(V,E)$ with $V=\{1,...,n\}$ and that have the following ...
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Hölder continuity of spectrum of matrices

Endow $\mathbb{C}^{d \times d}$ with the norm induced by the Euclidean norm on $\mathbb{C}^d$. It is well-known (to those who know it well, I guess) that the spectrum $\sigma(A)$ of a matrix $A \in \...
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Eigenvalues invariant under 90° rotation

Consider $N \times N$ matrices $$A = \begin{bmatrix} 0 & 0 & \cdots & 0 & 1 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & & 0 \\ \vdots & 1 & 0 & \...
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Eigenvalues of the sum of matrices, where matrices are tensor products of Pauli matrices

recently I've been studying the toric code (a squared lattice in the context of quantum computation). I want to calculate the energy of the ground state and of all the excitations, with the respective ...
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Eigenvalues of two positive-definite Toeplitz matrices

Consider two positive-definite Toeplitz matrices $M_1$ and $M_2$ both with dimension $2^j \times 2^j$. Their matrix elements are: $$M_1[x,y] = \frac{\text{sin}(\pi(x-y)/2^j)}{\pi(x-y)} \qquad M_2[x,y] ...
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Why is the set of Hermitian matrices with repeated eigenvalue of measure zero?

The Hermitian matrices form a real vector space where we have a Lebesgue measure. In the set of Hermitian matrices with Lebesgue measure, how does it follow that the set of Hermitian matrices with ...
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Monotonicity of eigenvalues II

In a previous question here, I asked the question below for block matrices and received an answer showing the question is true if $\mathcal B$ is hermitian and false, in general if $\mathcal B$ is non-...
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Monotonicity of eigenvalues

We consider block matrices $$\mathcal A = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & A\\A^* & 0 \end{pmatrix}$$ and $$\mathcal B = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & B\\C & 0 \end{pmatrix}.$$ Then we define the new matrix $...
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Imaginary eigenvalues

Consider the matrix $$A(\mu) = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1& 0 & 0 \\ -1 & -i\mu & 0 & i \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 &i & -1 & i\mu \end{pmatrix}.$$ This matrix is ...
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Eigenvalue pattern

We consider a matrix $$M_{\mu} = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & \mu & 1 & 0 \\ -\mu & 1 & 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 &-1 & 0 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$$ One easily ...
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Spectral symmetry of a certain structured matrix

I have a matrix $$ A= \begin{pmatrix} 0 & a & d & c\\ \bar a & 0 & b & d \\ \bar d & \bar b & 0 & a \\ \bar c & \bar d & \bar a & 0 \end{pmatrix} $$ As ...
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Significance of the length of the Perron eigenvector

Let $A$ be a positive square matrix. Perron-Frobenius theory says that there exist $\lambda,v$ with $Av=\lambda v$ and $\lambda$ equals the spectral radius of $A$, $\lambda$ is simple, and $v$ is ...
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Positive definiteness of matrix

This question is about the positive definiteness of a (non-random) matrix that is defined using random variables as follows: We fix the vector $v=(1,1)$ (yet, it seems the final result does not ...
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Perturbing a normal matrix

Let $N$ be a normal matrix. Now I consider a perturbation of the matrix by another matrix $A.$ The perturbed matrix shall be called $M=N+A.$ Now assume there is a normalized vector $u$ such that $\...
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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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Numerical error on the spectrum of a matrix

Let $Q=(q_{j,k})_{1\le j,k\le N}$ be a (Hermitian) $N\times N$ matrix with complex-valued entries. The matrix $Q$ is given numerically and the absolute error on each entry is bounded above by a (small)...
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Largest element in inverse of a positive definite symmetric matrix [closed]

If I have an $n \times n$ positive definite symmetric matrix $A$, with eigenvalues $\lambda_{1}>\lambda_{2}\cdots>\lambda_{n}$, can I claim that the highest value which matrix $A^{-1}$ can have ...
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Can we claim that all the terms in a matrix are less than equal to 1 if spectral radius is less than 1?

I have a a full column rank matrix A, and using this I want to construct a matrix with spectral radius less than 1. I do that using, H = $I-\alpha A^{T} A$ ($I$ is identity matrix), where the term $\...
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Non-asympototic version of Gelfand's formula

Let $A$ be a $n\times n$ matrix. Let $\|A\|$ be the spectral norm of $A$, and $\rho(A)$ be the spectral radius. I am wondering whether the following statement is true. There exists universal ...
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Eigenvalues of this matrix

I have a linear map that is defined by $$T:\text{lin}(1,...,x^m) \rightarrow \text{lin}(1,...,x^m) \text{ with}$$ $$x^k \mapsto 2w(k-m)x^{k+1}+(k^2-k-w^2)x^k-2kwx^{k-1}+(k-k^2)x^{k-2}$$ Let me give a ...
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Existence of a real eigenvalue

I have a matrix $M \in \mathbb{R}^{(n+1) \times (n+1)}$ that is tridiagonal. In numerical computations I found out that I always find a real eigenvalue. My question is: Is there a theorem that ...
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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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