Questions where the notion matrix has an important or crucial role (for the latter, note the tag matrix-theory for potential use). Matrices appear in various parts of mathematics, and this tag is typically combined with other tags to make the general subject clear, such as an appropriate top-level ...
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Matricies in Non-Linear Categories [on hold]
So I'm not well versed in subgroup structures or abstract algebra, but I do read quite a bit on the subject of category theory and group theory. I was curious if you could represent a mechanism that ...
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What is known about the spectrum of a Cauchy matrix?
Math people:
A Cauchy matrix is an $m$-by-$n$ matrix $A$ whose elements have the form
$a_{i,j} = \frac{1}{x_i-y_j}$, with $x_i \neq y_j$ for all $(i, j)$, and the $x_i$'s and $y_i$'s belong to a ...
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Determinant inequality of square-product sum of diagonal matrix and upper-triangular matrix
Recently, I have seen a matrix inequality but don't know how to prove it. The inequality goes as follows.
For an arbitrary $n\times n$ diagonal matrix $\mathbf{D}$ and an arbitrary upper-triangular ...
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Bound on number of multiplications required to generate a matrix algebra from generators?
I've got a question about matrices and matrix algebras that offhand seems difficult, I'm wondering there is any sharp solution? Or perhaps it's known to not have any solution at all?
Suppose you have ...
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Explicit formula for an LMI solution
Suppose we have a linear matrix inequality (aka LMI aka spectahedron aka linear matrix pencil):
$$A_{0}+x_{1}A_{1}+x_{2}A_{2}+\ldots+x_{m}A_{m} \succeq 0.$$
(The notation $X \succeq Y$ means that ...
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numerical range of a column-zero-sum matrix
I am trying to produce an example of a (necessarily non-normal) matrix that has only eigenvalues with positive real part, but whose numerical range contains elements with strictly negative real part. ...
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A NICE necessary and sufficient condition on positive semi-definiteness of a matrix with a special structure!
Let
$$
A =
\begin{pmatrix}
\sum_{j\ne 1}a_{1j} & -a_{12} & \cdots & -a_{1n}\\
-a_{21} & \sum_{j\ne 2}a_{2j} & \cdots & -a_{2n}\\
\vdots & \vdots & \ddots & ...
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looking for proof or partial proof of determinant conjecture
Math people:
I am looking for a proof of a conjecture I made. I need to give two definitions. For distinct real numbers $x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_k$, define $\sigma(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_k) =1$ if $(x_1, ...
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Growth of powers of non-negative integer matrices
In what I am currently doing, there naturally appears the following question: let $A$ be a square matrix with non-negative integer entries. Let $a_n$ be the sum of all entries of $A^n$.
Question: How ...
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Reference for partial Hadamard matrices
Definition. An $m\times n$ matrix is said to be a partial Hadamard matrix (let's say PHM) if its entries are chosen from $\lbrace -1, 1 \rbrace$ such that the dot product of each pair of row vectors ...
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Is my use of the eigendecomposition correct here?
I'm exploring different techniques to efficiently solve some matrix equations. My situation is that I have a matrix $\textbf{H} = \textbf{J}^T \textbf{J}$, where $\textbf{J}$ is a matrix with no ...
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Combinatorics of resultants
This is a crosspost of http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/446470/combinatorics-of-resultants which received no answer. [EDIT: I deleted the initial copy of the question on MathSE].
Let ...
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A certain type of constrained Rayleigh-Ritz ratio
Let $\mathbf{A_1}$ and $\mathbf{A_2}$ be two hermitian matrices. Consider the problem
\begin{align}
\max_{\mathbf{u}^H\mathbf{u}=1}~\mathbf{u}^H\mathbf{A}_1\mathbf{u} \\\
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A simple proof for a theorem of Szekeres and Turán
Szekeres and Turán found in 1937 a formula for the sum of the squares and the sum of the fourth powers of determinants of all $n$ by $n$ matrices with $\pm 1$ entries. (The sum of squares case follows ...
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A problem about Determinant of sum of permutation matrices
Let $w_1$ and $w_2$ be two permutations of $\{1, \cdots , k\}$ such that for all $1\leq i \leq k$, $w_1(i)\neq w_2(i)$. Let $m$ and $n$ be two relatively prime integers. Then is there exist two ...
