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Variational principles for symplectic eigenvalues

Part of:General theory of linear operatorsBasic linear algebraVariational principles of physics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2020

Rajendra Bhatia and
Tanvi Jain
Rajendra Bhatia
Affiliation:
Ashoka University, Sonepat Haryana 131029, India e-mail: rajendra.bhatia@ashoka.edu.in
Tanvi Jain*
Affiliation:
Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 110016, India
*
e-mail: tanvi@isid.ac.in
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Abstract

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If A is a real $2n \times 2n$ positive definite matrix, then there exists a symplectic matrix M such that $M^TAM=\text {diag}(D, D),$ where D is a positive diagonal matrix with diagonal entries $d_1(A)\leqslant \cdots \leqslant d_n(A).$ We prove a maxmin principle for $d_k(A)$ akin to the classical Courant–Fisher–Weyl principle for Hermitian eigenvalues and use it to derive an analogue of the Weyl inequality $d_{i+j-1}(A+B)\geqslant d_i(A)+d_j(B).$

Keywords

Symplectic eigenvaluesmaxmin principleWeyl’s inequalities

MSC classification

Primary:15A45: Miscellaneous inequalities involving matrices
Secondary:47A75: Eigenvalue problems49S05: Variational principles of physics (should also be assigned at least one other classification number in section 49)

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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , September 2021, pp. 553 - 559
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© Canadian Mathematical Society 2020

Footnotes

The work of RB is supported by a Bhatnagar Fellowship of the CSIR. TJ acknowledges financial support from SERB MATRICS grant number MTR/2018/000554.

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