Simultaneous kernels of matrix Hadamard powers

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Abstract: In previous work [Adv. Math. 298, pp. 325-368, 2016], the structure of the simultaneous kernels of Hadamard powers of any positive semidefinite matrix were described. Key ingredients in the proof included a novel stratification of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices and a well-known theorem of Hershkowitz, Neumann, and Schneider, which classifies the Hermitian positive semidefinite matrices whose entries are 0 or 1 in modulus. In this paper, we show that each of these results extends to a larger class of matrices which we term 3-PMP (principal minor positive).


The authors study the simultaneous kernels of Hadamard powers of a matrix whose principal minors of size at most 3 are nonnegative. These matrices are called 3-PMP matrices. The relationship between the principal submatrix rank property and the notion of principal minor positivity is studied. The main result of this paper is given in Section 5, where a classification of simultaneous kernels of Hadamard powers of all 3-PMP matrices is provided.











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