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Perturbation theory for the spectral decomposition of Hermitian matrices

Mathematical Physics 2019-08-26 v4 math.MP

Abstract

Let A and E be Hermitian self-adjoint matrices, where A is fixed and E a small perturbation. We study how the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of A+E depend on E, with the aim of obtaining first order formulas (and when possible also second order) that are explicitly computable in terms of the spectral decomposition of A and the entries in E. In particular we provide explicit Frechet type differentiability results. The findings can be seen as an extension of the Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger coefficients for analytic expansions of one-dimensional perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.1809.09480,
  title  = {Perturbation theory for the spectral decomposition of Hermitian matrices},
  author = {Marcus Carlsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09480},
  year   = {2019}
}