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Positivity properties of some special matrices

Functional Analysis 2020-05-05 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

It is shown that for positive real numbers 0<λ1<<λn 0<\lambda_{1}<\dots<\lambda_{n}, [1β(λi,λj)]\left[\frac{1}{\beta({\lambda_i}, {\lambda_j})}\right], where β(,) \beta(\cdot,\cdot) denotes the beta function, is infinitely divisible and totally positive. For [1β(i,j)] \left[\frac{1}{\beta({i},{j})}\right], the Cholesky decomposition and successive elementary bidiagonal decomposition are computed. Let w(n)\mathfrak w(n) be the nnth Bell number. It is proved that [w(i+j)]\left[\mathfrak w(i+j)\right] is a totally positive matrix but is infinitely divisible only upto order 44. It is also shown that the symmetrized Stirling matrices are totally positive.

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@article{arxiv.2002.08703,
  title  = {Positivity properties of some special matrices},
  author = {Priyanka Grover and Veer Singh Panwar and A Satyanarayana Reddy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.08703},
  year   = {2020}
}

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