The \(\alpha\)-scalar diagonal stability of block matrices (Q819783)

The paper deals with diagonal stability of block matrices. The author generalizes two results: the characterization of diagonal stability via Hadamard products [cf. \textit{J. F. B. M. Kraaijevanger}, ibid. 151, 245--254 (1991; Zbl 0724.15014)] and the block matrix version of the closure of the positive definite matrices under Hadamard multiplication. Given a real matrix \(A\), of size \(m \times m\), the main result of this paper establishes the equivalence between the following statements: (1) \(A\) is diagonally stable. (2) \(A \circ Q\) is diagonally stable, for every \(m \times m\) symmetric, positive semidefinite block matrix \(Q\), with diagonal blocks positive definite matrices. (3) \(A \circ Q\) is P-matrix, for every \(m \times m\) symmetric, positive semidefinite block matrix \(Q\), with diagonal blocks positive definite matrices. Finally, the author restates her generalizations in terms of \(P^{\alpha}\)-matrices and \(\alpha\)-scalar diagonally stable matrices.