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Expectation of spectral norm of a diagonal stochastic matrix

There is a diagonal matrix $G(t)\in R^{M\times M}$ where the diagonal elements are independent Bernoulli stochastic variables, satisfying $\mathbb{E}(g_i(t) = 1) = b$, and $ \mathbb{E}(g_i(t) = 0) = 1 ...
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Monotonicity of matrix conjugation

Let $A$ and $B$ be positive-definite matrices such that $A \le B.$ By matrix monotonicity of the root, this also implies that $A^{\alpha} \le B^{\alpha}$ for $\alpha \in [0,1].$ I am now curious under ...
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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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Spectrum of a product of a symmetric positive definite matrix and a positive definite operator

Let $\mathbf H$ be an infinite dimensional Hilbert space. I want to find an example of a $2\times 2$ real symmetric positive definite matrix $M$ and a positive definite bounded operator $A : \mathbf H ...
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On a theorem of Carlson on the necessary and sufficient condition for a matrix to have $m$ real eigenvalues

Background: In the physics of open quantum systems the Lindbladian $\mathcal{L}$ governs the evolution of quantum states through the Lindblad master equation. The Lindblad operator usually has ...
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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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Spectrum of large Hilbert matrices

Let $x_k>0$ be a increasing sequence of real numbers, such that $$\sum_0^\infty\frac1{x_k}<+\infty.$$ Let us form the (infinite) Hilbert matrix $A\in{\bf Sym}({\mathbb N};{\mathbb R})$ with $$a_{...
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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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Approximating spectra of (finite rank pertubations of) Laurent operators by spectra of (pertubations of) periodic finite operators

A tridiagonal matrix is a matrix which only has elements on three diagonals. So for $\alpha, \beta, \gamma \in \mathbb{C}$ consider the bi-infinite tridiagonal Laurent operator $T$ with $\beta $ on ...
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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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prove spectral equivalence bounds for inverse fractional power of matrices

The question is an extention to the answered question prove spectral equivalence bounds for fractional power of matrices. Let $A, D \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ be two symmetric,positive definite and ...
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prove spectral equivalence bounds for fractional power of matrices

Let $A, D \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ be two symmetric,positive definite and tri-diagonal matrices for that we know that they are spectrally equivalent, thus ist holds $$ c^- x^\top D x \le x^\top A ...
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Prove spectral equivalence of matrices

Let $A,D \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be two positive definite matrices given by $$ D = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & -1 & 0 & 0 & \dots & 0\\ -1 & 2 & -1 & 0 & \dots & 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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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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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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Perturbation of Neumann Laplacian

Consider the $N \times N$ matrix $$A_{\alpha}=\begin{pmatrix} \lambda_1 & -1 & -\alpha & 0 & \cdots & 0\\ -1 & \lambda_2 & -1 & -\alpha & \cdots & 0\\ -\alpha &...
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Expressing the singular values of a 2-by-2 real-valued matrix by the norm of the two columns and the angle between them

I'm looking for an elegant way to show the following claim. Claim: Let $m_1, m_2 \in \mathbb{R}^2$ be the two columns of matrix $M \in \mathbb{R}^{(2 \times 2)}$. The singular values of the matrix are ...
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Relation between the spectrum of 𝐷𝐴 and 𝐴 where 𝐴 is a bounded linear self-adjoint positive operator and 𝐷 is a constant diagonal positive matrix

Let $D$ be a $3\times 3 $ constant real positive-definite diagonal matrix and $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ be a bounded lipschitz domain. Denote by $(L^2(\Omega))^3$ the set of square integrable ...
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Essential spectrum of constant invertible diagonal matrix acting on a product of Hilbert spaces [closed]

Let $M$ be a $3\times 3$ real invertible diagonal matrix and $H$ a Hilbert space of infinite dimension (for example, we can take $H$ as the space of square integrable functions over a bounded ...
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What's the full assumption for Laplacian matrix $L=BB^T=\Delta-A$?

Graph with no-selfloop, no-multi-edges, unweighted. directed For directed graph Adjacency matrix is a non-symmetric matrix $A_{in}$ considering indegree or $A_{out}$ considering outdegree. Degree ...
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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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Real part of eigenvalues and Laplacian

I am working on imaging and I am a bit puzzled by the behaviour of this matrix: $$A:=\left( \begin{array}{cccccc} 1 & 0 & 0 & -1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & -1 &...
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Commutation between integrating and taking the minimal eigenvalue

Let $S = (f_{ij})_{ij}$ be a $n \times n$ real symmetric matrix, with functions $f_{ij} \in L^1(\mathbb{R}^d,\mathbb{R})$ in it. We define $\left(\int u S \right)_{ij} = \int u S_{ij}$ as the ...
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A relation between norm and spectral radius for some matrix operators on Banach spaces $\ell^{p}$

Let $A=(a_{i,j})_{i,j=1}^{\infty}$ be a semi-infinite matrix with real entries. Suppose further that $A$ and $A^{T}$ (matrix transpose) represent bounded operators on $\ell^{p}$ for $p\geq1$. Denote ...
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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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Matrix logarithms are not unique

In my ODE class, we proved that if $\exp(L) = \exp(L')$ then the eigenvalues are congruent mod $2 \pi i$. Here, $L$ and $L'$ are two $n \times n$ matrices. I wanted to know if something more precise ...
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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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Phase transition in matrix

Playing around with Matlab I noticed something very peculiar: Take the symmetric matrix $A \in \mathbb R^{n \times n}$ defined by $$A_{ij}= i \delta_{ij} - \frac{\varepsilon}{\sqrt{i}\sqrt{j}}\,.$$ ...
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Positive matrix and diagonally dominant

There is a well-known criterion to check whether a matrix is positive definite which asks to check that a matrix $A$ is a) hermitian b) has only positive diagonal entries and c) is diagonally ...
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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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Stable matrices and their spectra

I am a graduate student in engineering and we work a lot with so-called Hurwitz (or stable) matrices. A matrix in our terminology is called stable if the real part of the eigenvalues is strictly ...
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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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Intuitive proof of Golden-Thompson inequality

Sutter et al. [1] in their paper "Multivariate Trace Inequalities" give an intuitive proof of the following Golden-Thompson inequality: For any hermitian matrices $A,B$: $$ \text{tr}(\exp{(A+B)}) \...
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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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A Toeplitz variant of the Hilbert matrix

It is well-known that the Hilbert matrix $H$, i.e., the symmetric Hankel matrix with entries $$H_{m,n}=\frac{1}{m+n-1}, \quad m,n\in\mathbb{N},$$ determines a bounded operator on $\ell^{2}(\mathbb{N}...
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Diagonalization of Hermitian Matrix Polynomials

I have a question on the decomposition of polynomial matrices. Suppose $A(\lambda) = \sum_{j=0}^L \lambda^j A_j$ is an $n \times n$ matrix of polynomials, which is Hermitian on the real axis $\lambda ...
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spectral radius monotonicity

I encountered an inequality when reading a paper. Can someone help to show how to prove it? Let be the spectral radius of matrix $A$ or $\rho(A)=\max\{|\lambda|, \lambda \text{ are eigenvalues of ...
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Lower bound on the sum of singular values for a sum of Hermitian matrices

Denote the eigenvalues of an $n\times n$ matrix $\mathbf{X}$ by $\lambda_i(\mathbf{X})$ and its singular values by $\sigma_i(\mathbf{X})$, $i=1,\ldots,n$. When $\mathbf{X}$ is Hermitian, we know that $...
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p-adic analogue of self-adjoint operator

Consider the very well-known result that any Hermitian matrix over $\mathbb{C}$, say $T$, admits a decomposition $T = UDU^*$ where $U$ is unitary and $D$ is diagonal with real entries. I am looking ...
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Eigenvectors of symmetric positive semidefinite matrices as measurable functions

I'm currently interested in how discontinuous can get the eigenprojections of a continuous function taking values in a particular subspace of symmetric matrices. I've been searching everywhere for an ...
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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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$l_{\infty}$ norms of matrix perturbations

Say $B$ is a real symmetric matrix of dimension $n$ and $A$ is another real symmetric matrix of the same dimension. What needs to be the bounds on (which?) norm of $B$ to ensure that $\lambda_{max}(...
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Possibility of Disconnected Subgraphs of a $k$ Connected $r$ regular Graph under a given condition

Context: Given a adjacency matrix A of a $r$-regular graph $G$ (not complete graph $K_{r+1}$) . $G$ is $k$ connected. The matrix A can be divided into 4 sub-matrices based on adjacency of vertex $x ...