A panorama of positivity. I: Dimension free

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-14640-5_5MaRDI QIDQ2331050zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dominique Guillot, Apoorva Khare, Mihai Putinar, Alexander Belton

Publication date 24 October 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05482

zbMATH Keywords

convexitygeneralized Vandermonde matrixHankel matrixLoewner monotonicitymetric geometrypositive semidefinite matrixsample covarianceSchur polynomialssparsity patternsuper-additivitysymmetric function identitiesToeplitz matrixtotally non-negative matricestotally positive completion problemtotally positive matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to linear algebra (15-02) Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Matrix equations and identities (15A24) Miscellaneous inequalities involving matrices (15A45) Matrix completion problems (15A83) Toeplitz, Cauchy, and related matrices (15B05) Positive matrices and their generalizations; cones of matrices (15B48) Moment problems and interpolation problems in the complex plane (30E05) Moment problems (44A60) Toeplitz operators, Hankel operators, Wiener-Hopf operators (47B35) Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10)

Abstract: This survey contains a selection of topics unified by the concept of positive semi-definiteness (of matrices or kernels), reflecting natural constraints imposed on discrete data (graphs or networks) or continuous objects (probability or mass distributions). We put emphasis on entrywise operations which preserve positivity, in a variety of guises. Techniques from harmonic analysis, function theory, operator theory, statistics, combinatorics, and group representations are invoked. Some partially forgotten classical roots in metric geometry and distance transforms are presented with comments and full bibliographical references. Modern applications to high-dimensional covariance estimation and regularization are included.

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