Taylor expansions of eigenvalues of perturbed matrices with applications to spectral radii of nonnegative matrices (Q1189629)

Let \(A\) and \(B\) be two \(n\times n\) complex matrices, and let \(\lambda\) be an eigenvalue of \(A\). The purpose of this paper is to derive, under certain conditions, Taylor power series expansions of the form \(\lambda+\sum^ \infty_{k=1}\lambda_ k\varepsilon^ k\) and \(\sum^ \infty_{k=0}\nu_ k\varepsilon^ k\), respectively, for eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of the perturbed matrices \(A+\varepsilon B\) for an \(\varepsilon\) that has sufficiently small absolute value. If \(A+\varepsilon B\) is nonnegative for sufficiently small nonnegative \(\varepsilon\) and \(A\) is irreducible, the authors obtain power series expansions for the spectral radii of the perturbed matrices \(A+\varepsilon B\) and for corresponding eigenvectors. Their approach is constructive, and they present a recursive algorithm that will compute the coefficients of the above series. The authors first summarize some notation and conventions in section 2, and then introduce their algorithm and derive the expansions of eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors in section 3. The authors apply the results to nonnegative irreducible matrices and their spectral radii in section 4.