کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4603366 1336958 2008 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The positive definite completion problem revisited
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات اعداد جبر و تئوری
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The positive definite completion problem revisited
چکیده انگلیسی

In [R. Grone, C.R. Johnson, E. Sa, H. Wolkowicz, Positive definite completions of partial Hermitian matrices, Linear Algebra Appl. 58 (1984) 109–124] the positive definite (semi-) completion problem in which the underlying graph is chordal was solved. For the positive definite case, the process was constructive and the completion was obtained by completing the partial matrix an entry at a time. For the positive semidefinite case, they obtained completions of a particular sequence of partial positive definite matrices with the same underlying graph and noted that there is a convergent subsequence of these completions that converges to the desired completion. Here, in the chordal case, we provide a constructive solution, based entirely on matrix/graph theoretic methods, to the positive (semi-)definite completion problem. Our solution associates a specific tree (called the “clique tree” [C.R. Johnson, M. Lundquist, Matrices with chordal inverse zero-patterns, Linear and Multilinear Algebra 36 (1993) 1–17]) with the (chordal) graph of the given partial positive (semi-)definite matrix. This tree structure allows us to complete the matrix a “block at a time” as opposed to an “entry at a time” (as in Grone et al. (1984) for the positive definite case). In Grone et al. (1984), using complex analytic techniques, the completion for the positive definite case was shown to be the unique determinant maximizing completion and was shown to be the unique completion that has zeros in its inverse in the positions corresponding to the unspecified entries of the partial matrix. Here, we show the same using only matrix/graph theoretic tools.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Linear Algebra and its Applications - Volume 429, Issue 7, 1 October 2008, Pages 1442-1452