A symplectic proof of the Horn inequalities

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2017.01.006MaRDI QIDQ2401702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anton Alekseev, Masha Podkopaeva, András Szenes

Publication date 4 September 2017

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3149

zbMATH Keywords

Duistermaat-Heckman measureeigenvalueHorn inequalitiesHorn polytopeLiouville volumeplanar networksPoisson-Lie groupstropical approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities involving eigenvalues and eigenvectors (15A42) Max-plus and related algebras (15A80) Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57)

Abstract: In this paper, we give a symplectic proof of the Horn inequalities on eigenvalues of a sum of two Hermitian matrices with given spectra. Our method is a combination of tropical calculus for matrix eigenvalues, combinatorics of planar networks, and estimates for the Liouville volume. As a corollary, we give a tropical description of the Duistermaat-Heckman measure on the Horn polytope.

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