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We study the problem of determining whether a prescribed eigenpair $(\lambda,x)$ can be made an exact eigenpair of a nonnegative Hankel matrix through the smallest possible structured perturbation. The task reduces to check the feasibility…
Consider an $n\times n$ matrix polynomial $P(\lambda)$ and a set $\Sigma$ consisting of $k \le n$ distinct complex numbers. In this paper, a (weighted) spectral norm distance from $P(\lambda)$ to the matrix polynomials whose spectra include…
Consider a given square matrix $\textrm {K}$ with square blocks $A_{11},A_{22},\ldots,A_{nn}$ on the main diagonal. This paper aims to compute an optimal perturbation $\Delta$ of a preassigned block $A_{ii}\in\mathbb{C}^{d_i\times d_k},…
Given a square complex matrix $A$, we tackle the problem of finding the nearest matrix with multiple eigenvalues or, equivalently when $A$ had distinct eigenvalues, the nearest defective matrix. To this goal, we extend the general framework…
Consider an $n \times n$ matrix polynomial $P(\lambda)$. A spectral norm distance from $P(\lambda)$ to the set of $n \times n$ matrix polynomials that have a given scalar $\mu\in\mathbb{C}$ as a multiple eigenvalue was introduced and…
The problem of finding the distance from a given $n \times n$ matrix polynomial of degree $k$ to the set of matrix polynomials having the elementary divisor $(\lambda-\lambda_0)^j, \, j \geqslant r,$ for a fixed scalar $\lambda_0$ and $2…
In this article we study the structured distance to singularity for a nonsingular matrix $A\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$, with a prescribed linear structure $\mathcal{S}$ (for instance, a sparsity pattern, or a real Toeplitz structure), i.e.,…
Consider the following optimization problem: Given $n \times n$ matrices $A$ and $\Lambda$, maximize $\langle A, U\Lambda U^*\rangle$ where $U$ varies over the unitary group $\mathrm{U}(n)$. This problem seeks to approximate $A$ by a matrix…
Pseudospectra and structured pseudospectra are important tools for the analysis of matrices. Their computation, however, can be very demanding for all but small matrices. A new approach to compute approximations of pseudospectra and…
Consider a matrix polynomial $P \left( \lambda \right)= A_0 + \lambda A_1 + \ldots + \lambda^d A_d$, with $A_0,\ldots, A_d$ complex (or real) matrices with a certain structure. In this paper we discuss an iterative method to numerically…
This paper concerns the bounds for spectral norm distance from a normal matrix polynomial $P(\lambda)$ to the set of matrix polynomials that have $\mu$ as a multiple eigenvalue. Also construction of associated perturbations of $P(\lambda)$…
Understanding the singular value spectrum of a matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ is a fundamental task in countless applications. In matrix multiplication time, it is possible to perform a full SVD and directly compute the singular…
Given (orthonormal) approximations $\tilde{U}$ and $\tilde{V}$ to the left and right subspaces spanned by the leading singular vectors of a matrix $A$, we discuss methods to approximate the leading singular values of $A$ and study their…
Let A(x) be a holomorphic family of bounded self-adjoint operators on a separable Hilbert space H and let A(x)_n be the orthogonal compressions of A(x) to the span of first n elements of an orthonormal basis of H. The problem considered…
Given a nonlinear matrix-valued function $F(\lambda)$ and approximate eigenpairs $(\lambda_i, v_i)$, we discuss how to determine the smallest perturbation $\delta F$ such that $[F + \delta F](\lambda_i) v_i = 0$; we call the distance…
In this paper, we consider the problem of approximating a given matrix with a matrix whose eigenvalues lie in some specific region \Omega, within the complex plane. More precisely, we consider three types of regions and their intersections:…
The rectangular multiparameter eigenvalue problem (RMEP) involves rectangular coefficient matrices (usually with more rows than columns) and may potentially have no solution in its original form. A minimal perturbation framework is proposed…
We provide a first systematic treatment of so-called rectangular multispectral perturbation theory. With their paper from 2003, Hochstenbach and Plestenjak ["Backward Error, Condition Numbers, and Pseudospectra for the Multiparameter…
In many applications it is important to understand the sensitivity of eigenvalues of a matrix polynomial to perturbations of the polynomial. The sensitivity commonly is described by condition numbers or pseudospectra. However, the…
We study the problem of best approximations of a vector $\alpha\in{\mathbb R}^n$ by rational vectors of a lattice $\Lambda\subset {\mathbb R}^n$ whose common denominator is bounded. To this end we introduce successive minima for a periodic…