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Congruences and Norms of Hermitian Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Stephen Pierce  and
Leiba Rodman
Stephen Pierce
Affiliation:
San Diego State University, San Diego, California
Leiba Rodman
Affiliation:
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
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Two complex hermitian n × n matrices A and B are congruent if S*AS = B for some invertible n × n matrix S (with complex entries). The matrix S is called a congruence matrix. Given congruent hermitian matrices A and B, a congruence matrix is, of course, not unique. For instance, if A = B then one can take S = αI with |α| = 1, as well as any other matrix satisfying S*AS = A. However, here the choice S = I seems naturally to be best possible in the sense that when applied to an n-dimensional column vector it produces no distortion or movement of the vector at all. We shall measure the distortion (or movement) of the vector x ∊ Cn under an n × n invertible matrix A in terms of ║x − Ax║, where the norm is euclidean. Then the distortion produced by A is ║I − A║, with the induced operator norm.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 39 , Issue 6 , 01 December 1987 , pp. 1446 - 1458
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1987

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