Isospectral matrix flow maintaining staircase structure and total positivity of an initial matrix

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• 作者：Mahsa R. Moghaddam^a ; Kazem Ghanbari^a ; ^{kghanbari@sut.ac.ir} ; Angelo B. Mingarelli^b
• 关键词：58J53 ; 15A18 ; 15B35 ; 15A24
• 刊名：Linear Algebra and its Applications
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：15 March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：517
• 期：Complete
• 页码：134-147
• 全文大小：346 K
• 卷排序：517

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In this paper we introduce an isospectral matrix flow (Lax flow) that preserves some structures of an initial matrix. This flow is given bydAdt=[Au−Al,A],A(0)=A0, where A   is a real n×nn×n matrix (not necessarily symmetric), [A,B]=AB−BA[A,B]=AB−BA is the matrix commutator (also known as the Lie bracket), AuAu is the strictly upper triangular part of A   and AlAl is the strictly lower triangular part of A  . We prove that if the initial matrix A0A0 is staircase, so is A(t)A(t). Moreover, we prove that this flow preserves the certain positivity properties of A0A0. Also we prove that if the initial matrix A0A0 is totally positive or totally nonnegative with non-zero codiagonal elements and distinct eigenvalues, then the solution A(t)A(t) converges to a diagonal matrix while preserving the spectrum of A0A0. Some simulations are provided to confirm the convergence properties.