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Monotonicity of eigenvalues II
In a previous question here, I asked the question below for block matrices and received an answer showing the question is true if $\mathcal B$ is hermitian and false, in general if $\mathcal B$ is non-...
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Monotonicity of eigenvalues
We consider block matrices
$$\mathcal A = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & A\\A^* & 0 \end{pmatrix}$$ and
$$\mathcal B = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & B\\C & 0 \end{pmatrix}.$$
Then we define the new matrix
$...
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Positive matrix and diagonally dominant
There is a well-known criterion to check whether a matrix is positive definite which asks to check that a matrix $A$ is
a) hermitian
b) has only positive diagonal entries and
c) is diagonally ...
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