Preserving spectral properties of structured matrices under structured perturbations

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Abstract: This paper is devoted to the study of preservation of eigenvalues, Jordan structure and complementary invariant subspaces of structured matrices under structured perturbations. Perturbations and structure-preserving perturbations are determined such that a perturbed matrix reproduces a given subspace as an invariant subspace and preserves a pair of complementary invariant subspaces of the unperturbed matrix. These results are further utilized to obtain structure-preserving perturbations which modify certain eigenvalues of a given structured matrix and reproduce a set of desired eigenvalues while keeping the Jordan chains unchanged. Moreover, a no spillover structured perturbation of a structured matrix is obtained whose rank is equal to the number of eigenvalues (including multiplicities) which are modified, and in addition, preserves the rest of the eigenvalues and the corresponding Jordan chains which need not be known. The specific structured matrices considered in this paper form Jordan and Lie algebra corresponding to an orthosymmetric scalar product.


In applications it is often desired to change/perturb a given matrix \(A\in M_n(\mathbb{C})\) so that its ``bad attributes are replaced by the desired ones, while its ``good attributes remain unchanged. Such perturbations are called \textit{non spill-over}. The main results of the paper give parametric formulae to find all non spill-over perturbations in the case of two different attributes. This is done for unstructured matrices as well as for two types of structured matrices: the Lie type, \[\mathbb{L}:=\{A;\;\;A^{[\ast]}=-A\},\] and the Jordan type, \[\mathbb{J}=\{A;\;\;A^{[\ast]}=A\},\] where either \(A^{[\ast]}=H^{-1}A^{T} H\) or \(A^{[\ast]}=H^{-1}A^{\ast} H\) is the adjoint with respect to a bilinear form \((x,y)\mapsto x^THy\) or a sesquilinear form \((x,y)\mapsto x^\ast Hy\), respectively; in both forms \(H\) is a unitary (skew)Hermitian matrix. More specifically, all perturbations \(\Delta A\) for which a given subspace becomes (or remains) an invariant subspace of \((A+\Delta A)\) are found for unstructured matrices and structured matrices of Lie and Jordan type. Similar results are obtained also for all perturbations such that \((A+\Delta A)\) leaves invariant a given complementary pair of invariant subspaces. Moreover, all (non spill-over) structured perturbations which change specific eigenvalues but leave invariant the corresponding generalized eigenvectors are found. The formulae typically require computing the Moore-Penrose inverse, sometimes also the eigensystem, and are too long to be given in this review. Here is an example: if \(\mathcal{X}\subseteq\mathbb{C}^n\) is a \(p\)-dimensional invariant subspace for a matrix \(A\), then each perturbation \(\Delta A\) such that \(\mathcal{X}\) remains invariant for \((A+\Delta A)\) takes the form \[\Delta A=X(\Lambda_a-\Lambda)X^\dagger+Z(I-XX^\dagger).\] Here, \(X\) is an \(n\)-by-\(p\) matrix whose columns span \(\mathcal{X}\), \(X^\dagger\) its Moore-Penrose inverse, \(\Lambda\in M_p(\mathbb{C})\) is such that \(AX=X\Lambda\), while \(\Lambda_a\in M_{p}(\mathbb{C})\) and \(Z\in M_n(\mathbb{C})\) are arbitrary.



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