On the approximation of real powers of sparse, infinite, bounded and Hermitian matrices (Q2463620)

The author presents a method to approximate the elements of a real power of a positive-definite or positive-semidefinite (in this case, the power is nonnegative), infinite, bounded, sparse and Hermitian matrix. The accuracy of the approximation depends on the bounds of the matrix spectrum, the power, and the structure of the matrix near the chosen element. In the introduction of the paper, the authors comments how this problem is motivated from the quantum field theory on a lattice.