Inertia of Loewner matrices

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2016.65.5869MaRDI QIDQ2833069zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rajendra Bhatia, Tanvi Jain, S. Friedland

Publication date 16 November 2016

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01505, http://www.iumj.indiana.edu/IUMJ/ABS/2016/5869

zbMATH Keywords

conditionally positive definite matrixinertiaLoewner matrixpositive definite matrixSylvester's law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Positive matrices and their generalizations; cones of matrices (15B48)

Abstract: Given positive numbers p_1 < p_2 < ... < p_n, and a real number r let L_r be the n by n matrix with its (i,j) entry equal to (p_i^r-p_j^r)/(p_i-p_j). A well-known theorem of C. Loewner says that L_r is positive definite when 0 < r < 1. In contrast, R. Bhatia and J. Holbrook, (Indiana Univ. Math. J, 49 (2000) 1153-1173) showed that when 1 < r < 2, the matrix L_r has only one positive eigenvalue, and made a conjecture about the signatures of eigenvalues of L_r for other r. That conjecture is proved in this paper.

Review text

Given positive numbers \(p_1 <p_2 <\cdots <p_n\) and a real number \(r\), let \(L_r\) be the \(n\times n\) matrix with its \(i, j\) entry equal to \((p_i^r -p_j^r )/(p_i -p_j )\). A well-known theorem of C. Loewner says that \(L_r\) is positive definite when \(0<r<1\). By contrast, \textit{R. Bhatia} and \textit{J. A. Holbrook} [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 49, No. 3, 1155--1173 (2000; Zbl 0988.47011)] showed that, when \(1<r<2\), the matrix \(L_r\) has only one positive eigenvalue, and made a conjecture about the signatures of eigenvalues of \(L_r\) for other values of \(r\). The authors prove that conjecture.

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