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Improved bounds in Weaver's ${\rm KS}_r$ conjecture for high rank positive semidefinite matrices

Combinatorics 2021-06-18 v1

Abstract

Recently Marcus, Spielman and Srivastava proved Weaver's KSr{\rm{KS}}_r conjecture, which gives a positive solution to the Kadison-Singer problem. Cohen and Br\"and\'en independently extended this result to obtain the arbitrary-rank version of Weaver's KSr{\rm{KS}}_r conjecture. In this paper, we present a new bound in Weaver's KSr{\rm{KS}}_r conjecture for the arbitrary-rank case. To do that, we introduce the definition of (k,m)(k,m)-characteristic polynomials and employ it to improve the previous estimate on the largest root of the mixed characteristic polynomials. For the rank-one case, our bound agrees with the Bownik-Casazza-Marcus-Speegle's bound when r=2r=2 and with the Ravichandran-Leake's bound when r>2r>2. For the higher-rank case, we sharpen the previous bounds from Cohen and from Br\"and\'en .

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@article{arxiv.2106.09205,
  title  = {Improved bounds in Weaver's ${\rm KS}_r$ conjecture for high rank positive semidefinite matrices},
  author = {Zhiqiang Xu and Zili Xu and Ziheng Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09205},
  year   = {2021}
}