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Some Convexity Features Associated with Unitary Orbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Man-Duen Choi,
Chi-Kwong Li and
Yiu-Tung Poon
Man-Duen Choi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, e-mail: choi@math.toronto.edu
Chi-Kwong Li
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, U.S.A., e-mail: ckli@math.wm.edu
Yiu-Tung Poon
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, U.S.A., e-mail: ytpoon@iastate.edu
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Let ${{\mathcal{H}}_{n}}$ be the real linear space of $n\,\times \,n$ complex Hermitian matrices. The unitary (similarity) orbit $\mathcal{U}\left( C \right)$ of $C\,\in \,{{\mathcal{H}}_{n}}$ is the collection of all matrices unitarily similar to $C$ . We characterize those $C\,\in \,{{\mathcal{H}}_{n}}$ such that every matrix in the convex hull of $\mathcal{U}\left( C \right)$ can be written as the average of two matrices in $\mathcal{U}\left( C \right)$ . The result is used to study spectral properties of submatrices of matrices in $\mathcal{U}\left( C \right)$ , the convexity of images of $\mathcal{U}\left( C \right)$ under linear transformations, and some related questions concerning the joint $C$ -numerical range of Hermitian matrices. Analogous results on real symmetric matrices are also discussed.

Keywords

15A6015A42Hermitian matrixunitary orbiteigenvaluejoint numerical range

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , 01 February 2003, pp. 91 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2003

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