The shallow-water approximation requires a small depth-to-horizontal-scale ratio, slow streamwise variation of the channel and interface, small vertical acceleration, and rapid enough cross-sectional mixing for and to be representative averages. Near the channel apex, or during the initial collapse at a sharp front, these conditions need not hold. The high Reynolds number permits neglect of leading viscous resistance; weak stirring mixes the particles without appreciable ambient fluid entrainment.
Put . At elevation , the channel width is , so the occupied area and interface width are
Volume conservation and suspended-particle conservation give
The excess hydrostatic pressure is . Its streamwise gradient averaged over the triangular section gives acceleration : the weighted mean of is . Thus the triangular-channel shallow water equations are
The quasilinear coefficient matrix in is
Its three distinct real eigenvalues, for , establish strict hyperbolicity:
On the material characteristic curve, . On each of the other two characteristic curves, multiplying by the left eigenvector gives the compatibility ordinary differential equation
The derivatives are along the indicated characteristic, with . At vanishing concentration, the gravity-wave speeds coalesce and strict hyperbolicity is lost.
Here , so the Jacobi iteration matrix is
The all-ones vector is an eigenvector with eigenvalue . On its two-dimensional orthogonal complement, the coordinates sum to zero and , so the other eigenvalue is with multiplicity two. Therefore
By Jacobi convergence for a three-by-three equicorrelation matrix, convergence occurs exactly for
At either endpoint the spectral radius is one, so convergence for arbitrary initial data fails.
Changing the summation variable from to gives
Thus the quantum Fourier transform diagonalizes the cyclic shift.
For ,
Consequently the product states
form an eigenbasis, with corresponding eigenvalues
A fixed point satisfies
The branch with is
Every other fixed point can be parametrized by its -coordinate:
Equivalently,
The pair exists for , and the pair for .
The Jacobian matrix is
On its eigenvalues are and , so this branch has a nonhyperbolic equilibrium at and . On a nonzero- branch,
which vanishes at , hence at and . The three bifurcation values and locations are therefore
At put and write the centre manifold as . Its centre-manifold invariance equation is
It gives , and hence
This is the pitchfork bifurcation normal form with stable nonzero centre branches for : the bifurcation at is supercritical.
At put and . Then
Again , so
The nonzero centre branches exist for and are unstable in the centre direction, whereas is centre-stable there. Thus the bifurcation at is a subcritical pitchfork bifurcation with reversed normal-form parameter.
Finally fix and put
The translated system is
The extended centre manifold has
and therefore
This is the saddle-node bifurcation normal form. For there are two nearby fixed points, which coalesce and disappear at . The complete reductions are recorded in the Extended centre-manifold reductions of the 2019 Cambridge reflection-symmetric system.
A matrix is Hermitian when , and unitary when .
If with , then
so every eigenvalue is real. If and , then
Distinct eigenvalues therefore have orthogonal eigenvectors.
The normalized eigenvectors form an orthonormal basis, so the matrix satisfies and is unitary. With
the equations say , hence . This is the finite-dimensional unitary diagonalization of a normal matrix.
A unitary conjugate of an arbitrary diagonal matrix need not be Hermitian: and give . It is Hermitian exactly when all diagonal entries of are real.
For the displayed matrix, one valid decomposition is
The columns are orthonormal eigenvectors, so direct multiplication gives .
Given a solution , construct and hence the smooth matrices and . Let solve the linear ordinary differential equation
Because is skew-symmetric,
so is an orthogonal matrix and is invertible. Moreover,
It follows that
Thus the Lax pair flow is an Isospectral Lax equation: every is similar to and has the same eigenvalues and characteristic polynomial.
Every symmetric function of these constant eigenvalues is a first integral. In particular, the trace invariants of a Lax equation
are constant because the cyclic property of the trace gives
For example,
is an explicit first integral of equation .
For a fixed shift that is not an eigenvalue, inverse iteration is the power method applied to . Before normalization, the th vector is proportional to
If , factor out the first coefficient:
Every ratio in parentheses lies strictly between zero and one. The bracket therefore tends to , and normalization in the Euclidean norm gives
This proves the stated convergence to or and exhibits the convergence of fixed-shift inverse iteration rate.
Now suppose . The closest eigenvalue to is one of and .
  • If , the direction approaches , but , so consecutive iterates alternate signs.
  • If , the iterates approach one fixed sign of because .
  • At the midpoint, the two dominant inverse eigenvalues have equal modulus and opposite signs. Generic iterates alternate between the two normalized combinations proportional to and .
Finally, if , the closest eigenvalue is and its inverse eigenvalue is negative. Thus the direction approaches the line spanned by , while normalized vectors alternate between the two signs. These cases are the sign behavior of fixed-shift inverse iteration.
For a bounded linear operator , the spectrum is
while the point spectrum is the set of eigenvalues, equivalently the for which is not injective.
A compact operator maps the unit ball to a relatively compact set. A self-adjoint operator satisfies , or for all . A finite-rank operator has finite-dimensional image.
Eliminate to obtain the two-dimensional autonomous differential equation
Its Jacobian matrix at the endemic equilibrium is
Since ,
The trace-determinant stability criterion shows that both eigenvalues have negative real part. The Endemic equilibrium of the SIR model with waning immunity is therefore locally asymptotically stable.
The map is an involution, so
If is an eigenvalue of , then . Hence every eigenvalue belongs to
Because has distinct roots, the transform is diagonalizable; which fourth roots occur and their multiplicities depend on .
If for a nonzero eigenvector , then
Hence every eigenvalue satisfies . Since a complex endomorphism has an eigenvalue, zero is the only possible eigenvalue.
By the real spectral theorem, the real symmetric matrix has an orthonormal basis of eigenvectors. In that basis the associated quadratic form is
Rescaling the coordinates belonging to nonzero eigenvalues changes every positive coefficient to and every negative coefficient to . Hence the diagonal normal form has one positive square for each positive eigenvalue and one negative square for each negative eigenvalue. By Sylvester's law of inertia, these counts do not depend on the diagonalizing basis, so
The numerical eigenvalues are not invariant under a general change of basis, because the matrix changes by congruence rather than similarity. For example, on a one-dimensional space let . Its matrix in the basis is , whereas in the basis it is . The eigenvalue changes from to , although its sign, and therefore the signature, is unchanged.
Repeated substitution in Landweber iteration from gives
On the th singular vector, has eigenvalue and . The finite geometric series therefore gives
This is a spectral regularization method with filter
The supports of and are disjoint, so they are orthogonal vectors. Substitution in the covariance formula gives
and
Therefore the associated eigenvalues are
A representation is completely reducible, or semisimple, when it is a direct sum of irreducible representation. Equivalently, every invariant subspace has an invariant complement.
Maschke's theorem says that every finite-dimensional representation of a finite group over a field of characteristic zero is completely reducible. More generally, it is enough that the field characteristic does not divide .
Schur lemma states the following.
Indeed, and are invariant subspaces. If , irreducibility forces
so is an isomorphism. For an endomorphism of a finite-dimensional complex representation, choose an eigenvalue of . The intertwiner has nonzero kernel, so the first part forces
This proves the Proof of Schur lemma.
Now let be faithful and irreducible over . For every , the operator commutes with every . Schur's lemma therefore gives
for some . Faithfulness makes an embedding
Since every finite subgroup of the multiplicative complex numbers is cyclic,
This is the cyclic-center obstruction to a faithful irreducible representation.
Put , , and , adjoining . Then
The zero eigenvalue has centre direction . Solving the center manifold invariance equation gives
Substitution yields the reduced equation
Its equilibria are and for , exactly matching the three branches meeting at the pitchfork in part (b).
If for nonzero , then
so is an eigenvalue. Let . Since , the three factors of
are pairwise coprime. The kernel decomposition for coprime polynomials therefore gives
where an absent eigenspace is interpreted as zero.
The Gauss map sends to the chosen unit normal . Differentiating shows that maps into itself. The shape operator is self-adjoint because its associated second fundamental form is symmetric. Its eigenvalues are the principal curvatures. A point is umbilical when , and the surface is minimal when its mean curvature vanishes everywhere.
In an orthonormal principal basis, has diagonal matrix . It is conformal exactly when
which is equivalent to . At a nonumbilical point this says , exactly the condition . Hence, when there are no umbilical points, the surface is minimal if and only if its Gauss map is conformal.
The parity of a wavefunction is its eigenvalue under spatial reflection: for even parity and for odd parity. If , the Hamiltonian commutes with reflection, so its energy eigenspaces admit a parity eigenbasis. In particular, every nondegenerate bound-state energy eigenfunction has definite parity; within a degenerate scattering eigenspace one must choose the even and odd linear combinations.
Use the convention
Changing the summation variable from to gives
Thus the Fourier-basis states are eigenvectors of the cyclic shift, with respective eigenvalues , and the cyclic shift diagonalization by the quantum Fourier transform is
For , write with . Then
so
Hence the required quantum circuit applies, from input to output,
The first phase gate acts on the most significant qubit and the second on the least significant qubit .