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Following the classical approach of P\'olya-Schur theory we initiate in this paper the study of linear operators acting on $\mathbb{R}[x]$ and preserving either the set of positive univariate polynomials or similar sets of non-negative and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-01-22 Julius Borcea , Alexander Guterman , Boris Shapiro

We determine the structure of linear maps on complex (real) square matrices sending unitary (orthogonal) matrices to multiples of unitary (orthogonal) matrices. The result is used to determine the linear preservers of matrix pairs…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Bojan Kuzma , Chi-Kwong Li , Edward Poon

This paper investigates spectral properties of certain classes of positive operators originated from different matrices appeared in linear complementarity problem. These positive operators play a crucial role in various areas of mathematics…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Rashid A. , P Sam Johnson

Control and state estimation of nonlinear systems satisfying a Lipschitz continuity condition have been important topics in nonlinear system theory for over three decades, resulting in a substantial amount of literature. The main criticism…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Masoud Abbaszadeh , Horacio J. Marquez

Numerical computations involving rational matrices often benefit from preserving underlying matrix structures such as symmetry, Hermitian properties, or sparsity that reflect physical, geometric, or algebraic characteristics of the system.…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Avisek Bist , Namita Behera

Let $m,n\ge 2$ be positive integers, $M_m$ the set of $m\times m$ complex matrices and $M_n$ the set of $n\times n$ complex matrices. Regard $M_{mn}$ as the tensor space $M_m\otimes M_n$. Suppose $|\cdot|$ is the Ky Fan $k$-norm with $1 \le…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Ajda Fosner , Zejun Huang , Chi-Kwong Li , Nung-Sing Sze

A classical theorem proved in 1942 by I.J. Schoenberg describes all real-valued functions that preserve positivity when applied entrywise to positive semidefinite matrices of arbitrary size; such functions are necessarily analytic with…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-05-09 Alexander Belton , Dominique Guillot , Apoorva Khare , Mihai Putinar

Linear systems are the bedrock of virtually all numerical computation. Machine learning poses specific challenges for the solution of such systems due to their scale, characteristic structure, stochasticity and the central role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jonathan Wenger , Philipp Hennig

We consider linear systems arising from the use of the finite element method for solving scalar linear elliptic problems. Our main result is that these linear systems, which are symmetric and positive semidefinite, are well approximated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Erik Boman , Bruce Hendrickson , Stephen Vavasis

We study non-linear surjective mappings on subsets of ${\cal M}_n(F)$, which preserve the zeros of some fixed polynomials in noncommuting variables. Keywords: Matrix algebra, Multilinear polynomials, Preservers.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2010-03-12 A. Guterman , B. Kuzma

This paper develops the preconditioning technique as a method to address the accuracy issue caused by ill-conditioning. Given a preconditioner $M$ for an ill-conditioned linear system $Ax=b$, we show that, if the inverse of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Qiang Ye

The Frobenius norm is a frequent choice of norm for matrices. In particular, the underlying Frobenius inner product is typically used to evaluate the gradient of an objective with respect to matrix variable, such as those occuring in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Roland Herzog , Frederik Köhne , Leonie Kreis , Anton Schiela

Let $n_1,\ldots,n_k $ be integers larger than or equal to 2. We characterize linear maps $\phi: M_{n_1\cdots n_k}\rightarrow M_{n_1\cdots n_k}$ such that $${\mathrm rank}\,(\phi(A_1\otimes \cdots \otimes…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Zejun Huang , Shiyu Shi , Nung-Sing Sze

Methods are described for the solution of linear inference problems subject to deterministic constraints. The approach builds on work by Backus (1970a,b,c) and Parker (1977), but a range useful advances are suggested to address both…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 David Al-Attar

We study directions along which the norms of vectors are preserved under a linear map. In particular, we find families of matrices for which these directions are determined by integer vectors. We consider the two-dimensional case in detail,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Juan Tolosa

The objective of this manuscript is to understand the structure of an invertible linear map on the space of real symmetric matrices $\mathcal{S}^n$ that leaves invariant the closed convex cones of copositive and completely positive matrices…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Sachindranath Jayaraman , Vatsalkumar N. Mer

In this paper first we give a partial answer to a question of L. Moln\'ar and W. Timmermann. Namely, we will describe those linear (not necessarily bijective) transformations on the set of self-adjoint matrices which preserve a unitarily…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-13 György Pál Gehér , Gergő Nagy

A number of theoretical and computational problems for matrix polynomials are solved by passing to linearizations. Therefore a perturbation theory results for linearizations need to be related back to matrix polynomials. In this paper we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Andrii Dmytryshyn

This work provides closed-form solutions and minimum achievable errors for a large class of low-rank approximation problems in Hilbert spaces. The proposed theorem generalizes to the case of bounded linear operators the previous results…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-09 Patrick Heas , Cedric Herzet

The idea of monotonicity (or positive-definiteness in the linear case) is shown to be the central theme of the solution theories associated with problems of mathematical physics. A "grand unified" setting is surveyed covering a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-19 Rainer Picard , Sascha Trostorff , Marcus Waurick