Related papers: Nonnegative Biquadratic Tensors

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…

While the adjacency tensor of a bipartite 2-graph is a nonnegative biquadratic tensor, it is inherently reducible. To address this limitation, we introduce the concept of quasi-irreducibility in this paper. The adjacency tensor of a…

The covariance tensors in statistics{, elasticity tensor in solid mechanics, Riemann curvature tensor in relativity theory are all biquadratic tensors that are weakly symmetric, but not symmetric in general. Motivated by this, in this…

We first prove two new spectral properties for symmetric nonnegative tensors. We prove a maximum property for the largest H-eigenvalue of a symmetric nonnegative tensor, and establish some bounds for this eigenvalue via row sums of that…

In this paper we propose a homotopy method to compute the largest eigenvalue and a corresponding eigenvector of a nonnegative tensor. We prove that it converges to the desired eigenpair when the tensor is irreducible. We also implement the…

An algorithm for finding the eigenvalue of a nonnegative irreducible tensor was recently proposed by Michael Ng, Liqun Qi, and Guanglu Zhou in {\it Finding the largest eigenvalue of a nonnegative tensor}. However, the authors did not prove…

The theory of eigenvalues and eigenvectors is one of the fundamental and essential components in tensor analysis. Computing the dominant eigenpair of an essentially nonnegative tensor is an important topic in tensor computation because of…

The M-matrix is an important concept in matrix theory, and has many applications. Recently, this concept has been extended to higher order tensors [18]. In this paper, we establish some important properties of M-tensors and nonsingular…

It is well known that the dominant eigenvalue of a real essentially nonnegative matrix is a convex function of its diagonal entries. This convexity is of practical importance in population biology, graph theory, demography, analytic…

In this work, we present a new characterization of symmetric $H^+$-tensors. It is known that a symmetric tensor is an $H^+$-tensor if and only if it is a generalized diagonally dominant tensor with nonnegative diagonal elements. By…

Let $n$ be a positive integer and $m$ be a positive even integer. Let ${\mathcal A}$ be an $m^{th}$ order $n$-dimensional real weakly symmetric tensor and ${\mathcal B}$ be a real weakly symmetric positive definite tensor of the same size.…

Biquadratic tensors play a central role in many areas of science. Examples include elasticity tensor and Eshelby tensor in solid mechanics, and Riemann curvature tensor in relativity theory. The singular values and spectral norm of a…

This paper discusses the computation of real Z-eigenvalues and H-eigenvalues of nonsymmetric tensors. A general nonsymmetric tensor has finitely many Z-eigenvalues, while there may be infinitely many ones for special tensors. In the…

We propose a simple and natural definition for the Laplacian and the signless Laplacian tensors of a uniform hypergraph. We study their H$^+$-eigenvalues, i.e., H-eigenvalues with nonnegative H-eigenvectors, and H$^{++}$-eigenvalues, i.e.,…

We consider the tensor equation whose coefficient tensor is a nonsingular M-tensor and whose right side vector is nonnegative. Such a tensor equation may have a large number of nonnegative solutions. It is already known that the tensor…

Stimulated by odd-bipartite and even-bipartite hypergraphs, we define odd-bipartite (weakly odd-bipartie) and even-bipartite (weakly even-bipartite) tensors. It is verified that all even order odd-bipartite tensors are irreducible tensors,…

We propose a modified Newton iteration for finding some nonnegative Z-eigenpairs of a nonnegative tensor. When the tensor is irreducible, all nonnegative eigenpairs are known to be positive. We prove local quadratic convergence of the new…

Eigenvectors of tensors, as studied recently in numerical multilinear algebra, correspond to fixed points of self-maps of a projective space. We determine the number of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a generic tensor, and we show that the…

Eigenvectors associated with non-degenerate eigenvalues are shown to correspond to columns of the adjugate of the characteristic matrix. Degenerate eigenvalues are associated with eigenvectors that correspond to reduced complement tensors…

We are concerned with the tensor equation with an M-tensor or Z-tensor, which we call the M- tensor equation or Z-tensor equation respectively. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for a Z (or M)-tensor equation to have…