Title of article :
Is there a small skew Cayley transform with zero diagonal?
Author/Authors :
W. Kahan، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
Pages :
7
From page :
335
To page :
341
Abstract :
The eigenvectors of an Hermitian matrix H are the columns of some complex unitary matrix Q. For any diagonal unitary matrix Ω the columns of Q • Ω are eigenvectors too. Among all such Q • Ω at least one has a skew-Hermitian Cayley transform S (I + Q • Ω)−1 • (I − Q • Ω) with just zeros on its diagonal. Why? The proof is unobvious, as is the further observation that Ω may also be so chosen that no element of this S need exceed 1 in magnitude. Thus, plausible constraints, easy to satisfy by perturbations of complex eigenvectors when Hermitian matrix H is perturbed infinitesimally, can be satisfied for discrete perturbations too. But if H is real symmetric, Q real orthogonal and Ω restricted to diagonals of ±1’s, then whether at least one real skew-symmetric S must have no element bigger than 1 in magnitude is not known yet.
Keywords :
Cayley transform , Zero diagonal , Skew matrix
Journal title :
Linear Algebra and its Applications
Serial Year :
2006
Journal title :
Linear Algebra and its Applications
Record number :
825253
Link To Document :
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