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We introduce a new Projected Rayleigh Quotient Iteration aimed at improving the convergence behaviour of classic Rayleigh Quotient iteration (RQI) by incorporating approximate information about the target eigenvector at each step. While…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Nils Friess , Alexander D. Gilbert , Robert Scheichl

Let K be an infinite field and let R be a K-algebra endowed with a homogeneous polynomial norm N of degree n. If N satisfies a formal analogue of the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem the we will show that R is a quotient of the ring of the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francesco Vaccarino

Let $X$ be a complex affine variety in $\mathbb{C}^N$, and let $f:\mathbb{C}^N\to \mathbb{C}$ be a polynomial function whose restriction to $X$ is nonconstant. For $g:\mathbb{C}^N \to \mathbb{C}$ a general linear function, we study the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Laurentiu G. Maxim , Jose Israel Rodriguez , Botong Wang

The Rayleigh quotient, which provides the classical variational characterization of the spectral radius of Hermitian matrices, can be extended to nonsymmetric nonnegative irreducible matrices, ${\bf A}$, by the inclusion of a diagonal…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Lee Altenberg

We consider a convex minimization problem for which the objective is the sum of a homogeneous polynomial of degree four and a linear term. Such task arises as a subproblem in algorithms for quadratic inverse problems with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Radu-Alexandru Dragomir , Yurii Nesterov

This work studies the problem of maximizing a higher degree real homogeneous multivariate polynomial over the unit sphere. This problem is equivalent to finding the leading eigenvalue of the associated symmetric tensor of higher order,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Yuning Yang , Guoyin Li

We propose a new algorithm to solve optimization problems of the form $\min f(X)$ for a smooth function $f$ under the constraints that $X$ is positive semidefinite and the diagonal blocks of $X$ are small identity matrices. Such problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Nicolas Boumal

We study a non-linear eigenvalue problem for vector-valued eigenfunctions and give a succinct uniqueness proof for minimizers of the associated Rayleigh quotient.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Ryan Hynd , Bernd Kawohl , Peter Lindqvist

Mixed-precision arithmetic offers significant computational advantages for large-scale matrix computation tasks, yet preserving accuracy and stability in eigenvalue problems and the singular value decomposition (SVD) remains challenging.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Tianshi Xu , Zechen Zhang , Jie Chen , Yousef Saad , Yuanzhe Xi

Subspace methods are commonly used for finding approximate eigenvalues and singular values of large-scale matrices. Once a subspace is found, the Rayleigh-Ritz method (for symmetric eigenvalue problems) and Petrov-Galerkin projection (for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Irina-Beatrice Haas , Yuji Nakatsukasa

Minimization of a smooth function on a sphere or, more generally, on a smooth manifold, is the simplest non-convex optimization problem. It has a lot of applications. Our goal is to propose a version of the gradient projection algorithm for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Maxim Balashov , Boris Polyak , Andrey Tremba

We establish a general convergence theory of the Rayleigh--Ritz method and the refined Rayleigh--Ritz method for computing some simple eigenpair $(\lambda_{*},x_{*})$ of a given analytic regular nonlinear eigenvalue problem (NEP). In terms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Zhongxiao Jia , Qingqing Zheng

We introduce two new invariants of a Noetherian (standard graded) local ring $(R, \mathfrak m)$ that measure the number of generators of certain kinds of reductions of $\mathfrak m,$ and we study their properties. Explicitly, we consider…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Dylan C. Beck , Souvik Dey

In this paper, we describe a new method to compute the minimum of a real polynomial function and the ideal defining the points which minimize this polynomial function, assuming that the minimizer ideal is zero-dimensional. Our method is a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-22 Marta Abril Bucero , Bernard Mourrain , Philippe Trebuchet

The paper concerns the uniform polynomial approximation of a function $f$, continuous on the unit Euclidean sphere of ${\mathbb R}^3$ and known only at a finite number of points that are somehow uniformly distributed on the sphere. First we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Woula Themistoclakis , Marc Van Barel

Let $F \in \R[X_1,\ldots,X_n]$ and the zero set $V=\zero(\mathcal{P},\R^n)$, where $\mathcal{P}:=\{P_1,\ldots,P_s\} \subset \R[X_1,\ldots,X_n]$ is a finite set of polynomials. We investigate existence of critical points of $F$ on an…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Saugata Basu , Ali Mohammad-Nezhad

We investigate how to solve smooth matrix optimization problems with general linear inequality constraints on the eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix. We present solution methods to obtain exact global minima for linear objective functions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Casey Garner , Gilad Lerman , Shuzhong Zhang

In this paper we study a non-homogeneous eigenvalue problem involving variable growth conditions and a potential $V$. The problem is analyzed in the context of Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. Connected with this problem we also study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Mihai Mihăilescu , Vicenţiu Rădulescu , Dušan Repovš

Certain optimization problems in communication systems, such as limited-feedback constant-envelope beamforming or noncoherent $M$-ary phase-shift keying ($M$PSK) sequence detection, result in the maximization of a fixed-rank positive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Anastasios Kyrillidis , George N. Karystinos

For a given subspace, the Rayleigh-Ritz method projects the large quadratic eigenvalue problem (QEP) onto it and produces a small sized dense QEP. Similar to the Rayleigh-Ritz method for the linear eigenvalue problem, the Rayleigh-Ritz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Tsung-Ming Huang , Zhongxiao Jia , Wen-Wei Lin