Positive eigenvalues and two-letter generalized words

DOI10.13001/1081-3810.1069MaRDI QIDQ2778503zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher J. Hillar, Charles R. Johnson, Ilya M. Spitkovsky

Publication date 13 March 2002

Published in ELA. The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0504573, https://eudml.org/doc/122134, http://www.emis.de/journals/ELA/ela-articles/9.html

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zbMATH Keywords

generalized wordletterpositive definite matricespositive eigenvaluesprojections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Word problems, etc. in computability and recursion theory (03D40) Free lattices, projective lattices, word problems (06B25) Word problems (aspects of algebraic structures) (08A50) Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Combinatorics on words (68R15)

Abstract: A generalized word in two letters $A$ and $B$ is an expression of the form $$ in which the exponents $alph{a}_i$, $$ are nonzero real numbers. When independent positive definite matrices are substituted for $A$ and $B$, we are interested in whether $W$ necessarily has positive eigenvalues. This is known to be the case when N=1 and has been studied in case all exponents are positive by two of the authors. When the exponent signs are mixed, however, the situation is quite different (even for 2-by-2 matrices), and this is the focus of the present work.

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