Wreath product of matrices

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2016.10.023zbMATH Open1391.15083arXiv1507.02609OpenAlexW1917357167MaRDI QIDQ344910FDOQ344910

Alfredo Donno, Daniele D'Angeli

Publication date: 25 November 2016

Published in: Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a new matrix product, that we call the wreath product of matrices. The name is inspired by the analogous product for graphs, and the following important correspondence is proven: the wreath product of the adjacency matrices of two graphs provides the adjacency matrix of the wreath product of the graphs. This correspondence is exploited in order to study the spectral properties of the famous Lamplighter random walk: the spectrum is explicitly determined for the "Walk or switch" model on a complete graph of any size, with two lamp colors. The investigation of the spectrum of the matrix wreath product is actually developed for the more general case where the second factor is a circulant matrix. Finally, an application to the study of generalized Sylvester matrix equations is treated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02609

zbMATH Keywords

circulant matrixblock-circulant matrixlamplighter random walkwreath product of graphswreath product of matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Multilinear algebra, tensor calculus (15A69) Graph operations (line graphs, products, etc.) (05C76) Random walks on graphs (05C81)

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