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Almost-commuting matrices are almost jointly diagonalizable

Numerical Analysis 2013-07-16 v2

Abstract

We study the relation between approximate joint diagonalization of self-adjoint matrices and the norm of their commutator, and show that almost commuting self-adjoint matrices are almost jointly diagonalizable by a unitary matrix.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1305.2135,
  title  = {Almost-commuting matrices are almost jointly diagonalizable},
  author = {Klaus Glashoff and Michael M. Bronstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2135},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Minor corrections; results unchanged

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