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Matrix Theory : Basic Results and Techniques.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Zhang, Fuzhen.
Series:
Universitext Series
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (513 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Springer, 2026.
Summary:
The aim of this text is to present fundamental ideas, results, and techniques concisely, mainly in matrix theory with some in linear algebra.The book contains ten chapters covering various topics ranging from rank, similarity, and special matrices, to Schur complements, matrix normality, and majorization.
Contents:
Intro
Preface to the Third Edition
Contents
Frequently Used Notation and Terminology
Frequently Used Theorems
CHAPTER 1 Elementary Linear Algebra Review
1.1 Vector Spaces
1.2 Matrices and Determinants
1.3 Linear Transformations, Matrices, and Their Eigenvalues
1.4 Inner Product Spaces
CHAPTER 2 Partitioned Matrices, Ranks, and Eigenvalues
2.1 Partitioned Matrices and Their Elementary Operations
2.2 Determinants and Inverses of Partitioned Matrices
2.3 The Ranks of Product AB and Sum A + B
2.4 The Eigenvalues of AB, BA, and 0A∗A0
2.5 Localization of Eigenvalues: The Gerˇsgorin Disc Theorem
2.6 The Continuity Argument and Matrix Functions
CHAPTER 3 Matrix Polynomials and Canonical Forms
3.1 Commuting Matrices
3.2 Matrix Decompositions
3.3 Annihilating Polynomials of Matrices
3.4 λ-matrices and the Jordan Canonical Form
3.5 The Matrices AT, A, A∗, ATA, A∗A, and AA
CHAPTER 4 Numerical Ranges, Norms, and Special Products of Matrices
4.1 Numerical Range and Numerical Radius
4.2 Matrix Norms
4.3 The Kronecker and Hadamard Products
4.4 Compound Matrices
CHAPTER 5 Special Types of Matrices
5.1 Idempotence, Nilpotence, Involution, and Projections
5.2 Tridiagonal Matrices
5.3 Circulant Matrices
5.4 Vandermonde Matrices
5.5 Hadamard Matrices
5.6 Permutation Matrices and Doubly Stochastic Matrices
5.7 Nonnegative Matrices
CHAPTER 6 Unitary Matrices and Contractive Matrices
6.1 Properties of Unitary Matrices
6.2 Real Orthogonal Matrices
6.3 Contractive Matrices
6.4 The Unitary Similarity of Real Matrices
6.5 An Inequality of Unit Vectors and Its Applications
CHAPTER 7 Positive Semidefinite Matrices
7.1 Positive Semidefinite Matrices
7.2 A Pair of Positive Semidefinite Matrices
7.3 Partitioned Matrices and The Schur Complement.
7.4 The Schur Complement and Determinant Inequalities
7.5 The Kronecker and Hadamard Products and Inequalities
7.6 Inequalities of Choi, Kadison, Kantorovich, and Wielandt
CHAPTER 8 Hermitian Matrices
8.1 Hermitian Matrices and Their Inertias
8.2 The Product of Hermitian Matrices
8.3 The Min-max Principles and Interlacing Theorems
8.4 Eigenvalue and Singular Value Inequalities
8.5 Sum of Eigenvalues of Hermitian Matrices A,B, and A + B
8.6 A Triangle Inequality for the Matrix |A| = (A∗A)1/2
CHAPTER 9 Normal Matrices
9.1 Equivalent Conditions
9.2 Normal Matrices with Zero and One Entries
9.3 Normality and Cauchy-Schwarz Type Inequalities
9.4 Spectral Perturbation of Normal Matrices
CHAPTER 10 Majorization and Matrix Inequalities
10.1 Basic Properties of Majorization
10.2 Majorization and Stochastic Matrices
10.3 Majorization and Convex Functions
10.4 Majorization of Diagonal Entries, Eigenvalues, and Singular Values
10.5 Majorization for Matrix Sum
10.6 Majorization for Matrix Product
10.7 Majorization and Unitarily Invariant Norms
References for the 3rd Edition
Notation
Index.
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ISBN:
1-0716-5238-9
9781071652381

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