On common invariant cones for families of matrices

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Abstract: The existence and construction of common invariant cones for families of real matrices is considered. The complete results are obtained for 2x2 matrices (with no additional restrictions) and for families of simultaneously diagonalizable matrices of any size. Families of matrices with a shared dominant eigenvector are considered under some additional conditions.


The authors consider the existence and construction of common invariant cones for families of real matrices. Let \({\mathcal A}=\{A_1, A_2, \dots, A_n \}\) be a family of \(2 \times 2\) real matrices. The authors obtain necessary and necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an \({\mathcal A}\)-invariant proper cone. They analyze different cases: {\parindent7mm \begin{itemize}\item[(i)] when all the matrices \(A_j\) share a dominant eigenvector \(u\); \item[(ii)] when all the elements of \({\mathcal A}_1\) are diagonalizable matrices, being \[ {\mathcal A}_1= {\mathcal A} \cup \{A_iA_j \;: \;A_i, A_j \in {\mathcal A}, \;\det A_i <0, \;\det A_j < 0 \;\text{and} \;A_iA_j \neq cI \}; \] \item[(iii)] when there is none, one or two dominant eigenlines (one dimensional eigenspace) corresponding to non-diagonalizable matrices in \({\mathcal A}_1\); \dots. \end{itemize}} For matrices of arbitrary size \(m \times m\), the authors give an existence criterion for (and actually a construction of) a common invariant cone of a family \({\mathcal A}=\{A_1, A_2, \dots, A_n\}\) under the assumption that all the elements \(A_i\) can be put in a diagonal form by the same similarity transformation. They also provide some sufficient conditions for such a cone to exist when the matrices share the dominant eigenvector. Finally, the authors present several examples illustrating the theoretical results and their limitations.











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