The real positive semidefinite completion problem for series-parallel graphs (Q676039)

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The real positive semidefinite completion problem for series-parallel graphs
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    The real positive semidefinite completion problem for series-parallel graphs (English)
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    11 May 1997
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    The author considers the partial real symmetric matrices \(X\) whose diagonal entries are equal to 1 and off-diagonal entries are specified only on a subset of the positions. The author gives a set of necessary conditions for \(X\) to be completable to a positive semidefinite matrix, and shows that these conditions are also sufficient if and only if the graph corresponding to the positions of the specified entries has no \(K_4\)-minor.
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    real symmetric matrices
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    positive semidefinite matrix
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