Positivity preservers forbidden to operate on diagonal blocks

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8256zbMATH Open1527.15037OpenAlexW3047170560MaRDI QIDQ6135799FDOQ6135799

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Publication date: 28 August 2023

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The question of which functions acting entrywise preserve positive semidefiniteness has a long history, beginning with the Schur product theorem [Crelle 1911], which implies that absolutely monotonic functions (i.e., power series with nonnegative coefficients) preserve positivity on matrices of all dimensions. A famous result of Schoenberg and of Rudin [Duke Math. J. 1942, 1959] shows the converse: there are no other such functions. Motivated by modern applications, Guillot and Rajaratnam [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 2015] classified the entrywise positivity preservers in all dimensions, which act only on the off-diagonal entries. These two results are at "opposite ends", and in both cases the preservers have to be absolutely monotonic. We complete the classification of positivity preservers that act entrywise except on specified "diagonal/principal blocks", in every case other than the two above. (In fact we achieve this in a more general framework.) This yields the first examples of dimension-free entrywise positivity preservers - with certain forbidden principal blocks - that are not absolutely monotonic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00332

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zbMATH Keywords

absolutely monotonic functionsentrywise positivity preserversforbidden blocksHerz function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive matrices and their generalizations; cones of matrices (15B48) Miscellaneous inequalities involving matrices (15A45) Linear preserver problems (15A86) Power series (including lacunary series) in one complex variable (30B10) Matrix equations and identities (15A24) Classification of real functions; Baire classification of sets and functions (26A21) Linear inequalities of matrices (15A39)

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