Questions tagged [matrix-theory]
Matrix theory is the study of matrices as concrete objects, rather than as abstract linear operators between vector spaces (whose study belongs to linear algebra). For instance, this involves matrix factorizations and decompositions, nonnegative matrices and Perron-Frobenius theory, Schur complements, structured and special matrices, matrix functions and equations.
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max min of ratio of quadratic forms
Consider the optimization over two vectors $x$ and $y$
$$\max_{x,y} \min\left(\frac{x^TAx}{y^TAy},\frac{y^TBy}{x^TBx}\right)$$
for two positive definite matrices $A$ and $B$.
This problem can be ...
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Matrix transformation [closed]
I want to show that
$(I-H^T(-s)H(s))^{-1}$ has no poles on the imaginary axis
with $H(s)=C(sI-A)^{-1}B$ and $H^T(-s)=-B^T(sI+A)^{-T}C^T$
is equivalent to $M_\gamma$ has no purely imaginary ...
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inverse of asymptotic Toeplitz matrix with band limited associated function
I am reviewing a controversial paper, and the main result, a revolution within my field, comes down to whether or not the following is true. I strongly believe it is not, but would need confirmation.
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Boundary of pseudospectra
Suppose:
$B_i \in \mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$, $0<w_i\in \mathbb{R}$ $(i = 0,1,2,\ldots,m)$
${\rm P}(x) ={\rm{B}_m} x ^m + \cdots + B_1 x + B_0$ is a matrix polynomial, and $x $ is a complex ...
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Limits on a parameter $\alpha$ to get positive definite matrix
Given positive semi-definite $n\times n$ matrices $B_k$, how would I go about getting the limits on $\alpha_k$ such that the expression
\begin{equation}
\mathbb{I}-\sum_{k=1}^{m-1}\alpha_kB_k
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Eigenvalues of a partitioned self-adjoint matrix
This is a repost of the same question on MSE (with no reply/comment):
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1454314/eigenvalues-of-a-partitioned-self-adjoint-matrix
I would be grateful just for a ...
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Is my particular finite dimension Toeplitz matrix always strictly positive?
Let $H(\omega), \; -\pi \leq \omega \leq \pi$ be a real-valued function with a continuous band of zeros, that is (for simplicity) $H(\omega)=0, \; |\omega|\geq \beta \pi$.
Define a sequence of banded ...
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Bounding the largest Singular value
D is a $n \times n$ diagonal matrix whose diagonal entries lies in $(0,1]$.
B is any $n \times n$ n.n.d. matrix.
What will be the sharpest upper bound on the largest eigenvalue of:
$(D+B)^{-1}D^2(...
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Constructing pointwise-or independent binary matrices
Let $M$ be an $m \times n$ matrix such that every $M_{ij} \in \{0,1\}$.
We say that $M$ is `$\lor$-irreducible' if (i) no row is a pointwise-or of other rows, and (ii) no column is a pointwise-or of ...
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Asymptotic expansion square root matrix
I am looking for an asymptotic expansion for $\underline\gamma$ which is the "square root" matrix of a symmetric $p\times p$ matrix $\gamma$. Here $\underline\gamma$ is assumed to be symmetric, e.g. ...
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Unitary transformation of a Hermitian indefinite pencil to a real non-symmetric pencil
Given a Hermitian indefinite pencil $(A-\lambda B)$ where both $A=A^H$ and $B=B^H \in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ are possibly indefinite, it is straightforward to show that the eigenvalues are either ...
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how to find all the solutions to $I+A+\cdots+A^n=0.$ [closed]
Let $GL_3(\mathbb{Z}[i])$ be the group of invertible $3\times 3$ matrices whose coefficients are Gaussian integers.I want to find all the pair $(A\in GL_3(\mathbb{Z}[i]),n\in\mathbb{Z})$ satisfying
$$...
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Possible diagonal values of a product of matrices with some specific characteristics
Hello all,
This is a question that might or might not be related to my previous one.
Imagine you have two matrices:
Matrix $\mathbf{\Phi}=[\Phi_1,\ldots,\Phi_M]\in\mathbb{R}^{L\times M}$ where $M\...
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Ring-theoretic version of a matrix problem
Problem #17 in Zhan's survey of open problems in matrix theory is the Li-Poon problem on writing a square real matrix as the linear combination of $k$ orthogonal matrices. They proved that it is ...
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bounds on the entries of an inverse circulant matrix
Suppose that $C$ is a (real) circulant invertible matrix defined by a vector $d$. Then $C^{-1}$ is also a circulant defined by some vector $f$. There exists a standard formula that expresses the ...
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sharper interlacing
The usual interlacing inequalities say that if $M$ is a Hermitian $n \times n$ matrix and $\hat{M}$ is a principal submatrix of order $n-1$, then $\lambda_{\min}(M) \leq \lambda_{\min}(\hat{M})$. I ...
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A question on orthogonal matrix [closed]
Let $P\in R^{n\times n}$ be an orthogonal matrix. I want to ask whether or not there exists some vector $x\in R^n$ containing no zero entries such that $Px$ also contains no zero entries.
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How to determine the distance between two matrices under the meaning of a matrix function? [closed]
Suppose a nonlinear infinitely continous differentiable function $f:\mathbb{D}\mapsto \mathbb{R^+}$, where $\mathbb{D}\subset\left\{X|\text{rank}{X}=2,X\in\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3}\right\}$ is a ...
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$P(Z)$ is matrix polynomials. Why is $s_n$ smooth in a neighbourhood of $Z$?
Let $A_j \in \mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$, ($j = 0,1,2,\ldots,m$) and
$P(Z) = A_m Z^m + \cdots + A_1 Z + A_0$ is a matrix polynomial, and $Z $ is a complex variable.
$Z$ is eigenvalue of $P(Z )$ if $\...
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Local differentiability of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a real symmetric matrix
Let $A(x)\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be a real symmetric matrix depending on the point $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$, where the eigenvalues are not necessarily simple. Can we say that for all $x$ there exists an ...
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Are there zero entries in the eigenvector corresponding to a simple eigenvalue?
For a real symmetric matrix $M$ and a simple eigenvalue $\lambda$, under which conditions the corresponding eigenvector has no zero entries? Perhaps, this is unconditional and one can provide a proof?
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Can this fixed point theorem generalize to infinite structures?
Suppose that $n$ is a natural number, $X$ is a set, and $S\subseteq X^{2}$ is a subset such that if $x,y\in X$, then there is a unique tuple $(x_{0},\dots,x_{n})$ where $x_{0}=x,x_{n}=y$ and $(x_{i},...
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Choosing the best submatrix
Let $\mathbf{A}_{m\times n}$ be a matrix with non-negative elements. Assume that a submatrix $\mathbf{B}$ from $\mathbf{A}$ is defined as
\begin{align}
B_{i,j} =
\begin{cases}
A_{i,j}, & i\in\...
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Checking a matrix for distinct rows
I am computing some combinatorial parameter associated with the complex simple Lie algebras of type $A_n$ using sage and the output will be a rectangular integer matrix.
All I need to prove to solve ...
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Sparse dense matrix versus non-sparse dense matrix in eigenvalue computation
I have a matrix in the form of $2n\times 2n$ block matrix
$$
A = \begin{pmatrix}O& W\\
J& D\end{pmatrix}
$$
where, $O$ is an $n\times n$ zero-matrix; $W$ is a n-by-n diagonal matrix, $W = ...
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Convex Combination of 2 hermitian matrices
Assume all the matrices I discuss about are $N \times N$. Consider any two hermitian matrices $A_1$ and $A_2$ which are indefinite. The question is, In general, for any $A_1$ and $A_2$ (both matrices ...
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Inequality for extremal values of product of Hermitian matrices
I am looking for a reference to verify the following inequality, where $X$ and $Y$ are Hermitian positive semidefinite matrices:
$$
\lambda_n(X^{1/2}YX^{1/2}) = \lambda_n(XY) \leq \lambda_n(X)\...
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Faulty algorithm for simultaneous diagonalization?
I found a simple algorithm for simultaneous diagonalization of two commuting matrices (Nordgren - Simultaneous Diagonalization and SVD of Commuting Matrices), which seemed to be well-founded. For ...
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Special type of normal form of matrix in principal ideal domain
$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}\DeclareMathOperator\PSL{PSL}$I want to ask the following, Given $X \in n \times n$ matrix that all the elements are integers and $X=X^{T}$ is symmetric.
Can one always ...
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$A_{n \times m} D_{m \times m} A^T_{m \times n} + \alpha I_{n \times n}$
Assume that we have a matrix product of form $B=A_{n \times m} D_{m \times m} A^T_{m \times n} + \alpha I_{n \times n}$. $D$ is a positive diagonal matrix, $I$ is identity matrix, $\alpha>0$ and $m ...
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On sum of matrices
Suppose we have a matrix $M\in\Bbb Q^{n\times n}$ with no $0$ elements and we write as sum of two matrices $M_1$ and $M_2$ on following constraint.
$M_{1,ij}=M_{ij}$ and $M_{2,ij}=0$ or $M_{1,ij}=0$ ...
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A conjugation matrix $X\in \mathbb{C}^{ n\times p}$ where $p< n$
Given a Hermitian positive definite matrix $A\in \mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$ and a Hermitian matrix $B\in\mathbb{C}^{ p\times p},$ find the matrix $X$ so that $X^HAX=B$ holds where $X^H$ denotes ...
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Recurrence Equation and Matrix Convergence
To begin with, let us give the conceptual background needed to expose the problem. First of all, we shall consider the set $\mathbb{L}^{n} = \mathbb{R}^{n}_{\geq0} = \{\overrightarrow{x}\in\mathbb{R}^{...
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Non-strict column diagonally dominant matrix inner product
Let $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ be a normalized non-strict column diagonally dominant matrix, that is:
$$a_{j,j} = \sum_{i \ne j} \left|a_{i,j}\right|$$
where $0 \le a_{j,j} \le 1$ and $-1 \le ...
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Solution of infinite dimension linear system
Suppose that ${a_n}$ and $b_n$ is decreasing sequence such that $a_0=A$, $lim_{n->\infty}a_n=0$ and $b_0=B$, $lim_{n->\infty}b_n=0$.
For fix n,
we can construct n dimension linear equation ...
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Kernel of a projection
Given $m<n$. Suppose that $H$ and $K$ be $m \times n$ and $n\times (n-m)$ matrices such that rank$(H)=m$, rank$(K)=n-m$, and $HK=0$. For fixed non singular symmetric matrix $A$ define
\begin{...
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Perturbation of Cholesky decomposition for matrix inversion
I am looking for a computationally cheap way to compute $x$ such that $$(L L^T + \mu^2 I)x = y$$
where $L \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ is a lower triangular definite positive matrix (with some very ...
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Eliminating nullity for enhanced non-singularity
If we have an
$n\times n$ matrix $A$ with entries either $0$ or $1$, where all diagonal entries are $0$ and the rank is $k<n$, can we reach full rank by changing exactly $n-k$ zero off-diagonal ...
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On a matrix equation with Kronecker product
Is there any work on the matrix equation in unknowns $X, Y \in {\Bbb C}^{n \times n}$ $$(X \otimes Y + Y \otimes X) \operatorname{vec}(A)=0$$ where $\otimes$ is the Kronecker product? Or, in general, ...
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Efficient method to determine minimum eigenvalue of $2 \times 2$ block diagonal matrix
Suppose $H$ is a $2 \times 2$ block-diagonal symmetric matrix in $\mathbb{R}^{2^N \times 2^N} $. That is
$$ H = \begin{pmatrix} A_1 & 0 & \cdots & 0\\ 0 & A_2 & \cdots & 0 \\
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On the exponentiation of a stochastic matrix where the exponent is a function of matrix size
In this question, I asked about any arbitrary stochastic matrix $A(n)$ of the particular form
$$A(n) = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & \cdots & 0\\ x_{21} & x_{22} & \cdots & 0\\ \...
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Multiplying by Loewner-ordered matrices
Suppose $A$ and $B$ are symmetric positive (semi-)definite, and $A<B$ in Loewner order, meaning $B-A$ is positive (semi-)definite. Is it true that, for a symmetric positive-definite $C$, we have $...
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Classification of elements $GL(d, \mathbb{R})$
Any $SL(2, \mathbb{R})$ is either elliptic or hyperbolic, or parabolic up to conjugacy; see here.
Do we have the same classification for $GL(d, \mathbb{R})$? If so, could you please introduce some ...
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Sequence in matrices converging to Identity
Let $M_{k}(\mathbb{C})$ be the set of $k \times k$ complex matrices. I am trying to find a sequence of polynomials $P_{n}: M_{k}(\mathbb{C}) \to M_{k}(\mathbb{C})$ (or continuous functions $f_{n}$) ...
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Is it possible to reduce eigenvalues of tensors to an matrix eigenvalue problem?
Can we construct a larger matrix $M$ such that its eigenvalues are the same as the eigenvalues of a tensor $T$ of order 3?
Let $\mathbf{T}$ be a fully symmetric tensor of order $3$ and size $N$. Its ...
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Derivative of matrix argument function with respect to eigenvalues of argument
Let $\mathsf{SPD}_n$ denote the set of all real symmetric and positive definite $n\times n$ matrices. This set is convex so for every $A,B\in\mathsf{SPD}_n$ there exists a smooth path $\varphi:[0,1]\...
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Find occurrences of certain matrix inside a matrix
This problem occurred from my need to find all graphs with a certain topology inside a bigger one. I don't need the subgraphs but the graphs that have the exact topology I am searching.
We know for ...
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A system of inequalities involving a skew-symmetric integer matrix
Which skew-symmetric integer matrices $S$ satisfy the following inequalities
$SV_i \ne z_iE_i$ for all $i = 1,\cdots, n$
where
$V_i$ denotes the column with integer entries such that the $i$-th ...
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Eigenvalues of the matrix obtained by letting some of the rows vanish, hoping for some inequality
Let $A$ be an $n \times n$ matrix. Let $A_k$ be the matrix obtained by keeping the first $k$ rows of $A$ fixed and substituting $0$ for the rows $k+1$ to $n$. To be precise, we write $A= [R_1...R_k, ...
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Nullity of infinite matrix in row echelon form
For an $m \times n$ matrix $A$ in row echelon form, $\mathrm{nullity} (A)$ is equal to the number of columns that do not contain a pivot. Is this also true for an infinite matrix in row echelon form ...
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