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Condition Numbers of Random Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices

Numerical Analysis 2012-12-20 v1 Probability

Abstract

Estimating the condition numbers of random structured matrices is a well known challenge, linked to the design of efficient randomized matrix algorithms. We deduce such estimates for Gaussian random Toeplitz and circulant matrices. The former estimates can be surprising because the condition numbers grow exponentially in n as n grows to infinity for some large and important classes of n-by-n Toeplitz matrices, whereas we prove the opposit for Gaussian random Toeplitz matrices. Our formal estimates are in good accordance with our numerical tests, except that circulant matrices tend to be even better conditioned according to the tests than according to our formal study.

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@article{arxiv.1212.4551,
  title  = {Condition Numbers of Random Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices},
  author = {Victor Y. Pan and Guoliang Qian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.4551},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

10.3 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1210.7476

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