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M-tensors and The Positive Definiteness of a Multivariate Form

Numerical Analysis 2012-03-01 v1

Abstract

We study M-tensors and various properties of M-tensors are given. Specially, we show that the smallest real eigenvalue of M-tensor is positive corresponding to a nonnegative eigenvector. We propose an algorithm to find the smallest positive eigenvalue and then apply the property to study the positive definiteness of a multivariate form.

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@article{arxiv.1202.6431,
  title  = {M-tensors and The Positive Definiteness of a Multivariate Form},
  author = {Liping Zhang and Liqun Qi and Guanglu Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.6431},
  year   = {2012}
}