Range decompositions and generalized square roots of positive semidefinite matrices

DOI10.1016/0024-3795(91)90296-9MaRDI QIDQ755844zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Donald A. Pierce

Publication date 1991

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3795(91)90296-9

zbMATH Keywords

generalized square rootsorthogonal decompositionpositive semidefinite matrixrange decompositionsself-adjoint projections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory (15A60) Positive matrices and their generalizations; cones of matrices (15B48)

Review text

Let A be a positive semidefinite matrix. The author presents a method for finding all expressions of A as a finite positive linear combination of self-adjoint projections (not necessarily mutually orthogonal), and characterizes those for which the ranges of the projections are orthogonal or linearly independent subspaces. This is achieved by establishing a correspondence between such expressions and the (possibly rectangular) matrices B satisfying \(BB^*=A\). In particular, any linearly independent decomposition of a projection is necessarily an orthogonal decomposition. If P is a rank one projection whose range is spanned by a unit vector v, then the maximal number r for which A-rP\(\geq 0\) is shown to be \((v,x)^{-1}\), where x is any solution to \(Ax=v\).

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