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We introduce a framework for repurposing error estimators for source problems to compute an estimator for the gap between eigenspaces and their discretizations. Of interest are eigenspaces of finite clusters of eigenvalues of unbounded…

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We consider a problem in eigenvalue optimization, in particular finding a local minimizer of the spectral abscissa - the value of a parameter that results in the smallest value of the largest real part of the spectrum of a matrix system.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Wim Michiels , Moritz Diehl

We propose NEP_MiniMax, a novel computational method for solving nonlinear eigenvalue problems (NEPs) $T(\lambda)\mathbf{u}= 0$ on compact continua $\Omega \subset \mathbb{C}$. The method combines two key components: (1) a rational minimax…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Chenkun Zhang , Jiawei Gu , Lei-Hong Zhang

We first consider the problem of approximating a few eigenvalues of a rational matrix-valued function closest to a prescribed target. It is assumed that the proper rational part of the rational matrix-valued function is expressed in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Rifqi Aziz , Emre Mengi , Matthias Voigt

We consider the distance from a (square or rectangular) matrix pencil to the nearest matrix pencil in 2-norm that has a set of specified eigenvalues. We derive a singular value optimization characterization for this problem and illustrate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-22 Daniel Kressner , Emre Mengi , Ivica Nakic , Ninoslav Truhar

A local and parallel algorithm based on the multilevel discretization is proposed in this paper to solve the eigenvalue problem by the finite element method. With this new scheme, solving the eigenvalue problem in the finest grid is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Yu Li , Xiaole Han , Hehu Xie , Chunguang You

We discuss the solution of eigenvalue problems associated with partial differential equations that can be written in the generalized form $\m{A}x=\lambda\m{B}x$, where the matrices $\m{A}$ and/or $\m{B}$ may depend on a scalar parameter.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Daniele Boffi , Francesca Gardini , Lucia Gastaldi

Let $T : \Omega \rightarrow \bbC^{n \times n}$ be a matrix-valued function that is analytic on some simply-connected domain $\Omega \subset \bbC$. A point $\lambda \in \Omega$ is an eigenvalue if the matrix $T(\lambda)$ is singular. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-06 David Bindel , Amanda Hood

This paper aims to address two fundamental challenges arising in eigenvector estimation and inference for a low-rank matrix from noisy observations: (1) how to estimate an unknown eigenvector when the eigen-gap (i.e. the spacing between the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Chen Cheng , Yuting Wei , Yuxin Chen

We propose a variable metric framework for minimizing the sum of a self-concordant function and a possibly non-smooth convex function, endowed with an easily computable proximal operator. We theoretically establish the convergence of our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-15 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Volkan Cevher

Spectral properties of bounded linear operators play a crucial role in several areas of mathematics and physics. For each self-adjoint, trace-class operator $O$ we define a set $\Lambda_n\subset \mathbb{R}$, and we show that it converges to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Richárd Balka , Gábor Homa , András Csordás

We propose two different strategies to find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a given, not necessarily Hermitian, matrix $A$. Our methods apply also to the case of complex eigenvalues, making the strategies interesting for applications to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Fabio Bagarello , Francesco Gargano

Solving the generalized eigenvalue problem is a useful method for finding energy eigenstates of large quantum systems. It uses projection onto a set of basis states which are typically not orthogonal. One needs to invert a matrix whose…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Caleb Hicks , Dean Lee

In this chapter we are examining several iterative methods for solving nonlinear eigenvalue problems. These arise in variational image-processing, graph partition and classification, nonlinear physics and more. The canonical eigenproblem we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Guy Gilboa

In this article, we study eigenvalue problems associated to self-adjoint operators and their approximation obtained by subspace projection, as used in the reduced basis method for instance. We provide error bounds between the exact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Louis Garrigue , Benjamin Stamm

Solving linear systems and computing eigenvalues are two fundamental problems in linear algebra. For solving linear systems, many efficient quantum algorithms have been discovered. For computing eigenvalues, currently, we have efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Changpeng Shao

This work considers two popular minimization problems: (i) the minimization of a general convex function $f(\mathbf{X})$ with the domain being positive semi-definite matrices; (ii) the minimization of a general convex function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Qiuwei Li , Zhihui Zhu , Gongguo Tang

We introduce a general method for transforming the equations of motion following from a Das-Jevicki-Sakita Hamiltonian, with boundary conditions, into a boundary value problem in one-dimensional quantum mechanics. For the particular case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. D. Paniak

This letter proposes to estimate low-rank matrices by formulating a convex optimization problem with non-convex regularization. We employ parameterized non-convex penalty functions to estimate the non-zero singular values more accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Ankit Parekh , Ivan W. Selesnick

In the present paper, we deal with a fourth-order boundary value problem problem with eigenparameter dependent boundary conditions and transmission conditions at a interior point. A self-adjoint linear operator A is defined in a suitable…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Erdoğan Şen , Serkan Araci , Mehmet Acikgoz