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On Hadamard powers of positive semi-definite matrices

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2022-06-15 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Consider the set of scalars α\alpha for which the α\alphath Hadamard power of any n×nn\times n positive semi-definite (p.s.d.) matrix with non-negative entries is p.s.d. It is known that this set is of the form {0,1,,n3}[n2,)\{0, 1, \dots, n-3\}\cup [n-2, \infty). A natural question is "what is the possible form of the set of such α\alpha for a fixed p.s.d. matrix with non-negative entries?". In all examples appearing in the literature, the set turns out to be union of a finite set and a semi-infinite interval. In this article, examples of matrices are given for which the set consists of a finite set and more than one disjoint interval of positive length. In fact, it is proved that for some matrices, the number of such disjoint intervals can be made arbitrarily large by taking nn large. The case when the entries of the matrices are not necessarily non-negative is also considered.

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@article{arxiv.2201.04443,
  title  = {On Hadamard powers of positive semi-definite matrices},
  author = {Jnaneshwar Baslingker and Biltu Dan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.04443},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Minor changes. To appear in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society