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Put . With , the row Gershgorin discs have centres and radiiApplying the theorem to the transpose gives column Gershgorin discs with radiiThe enlarged disc moves from the last centre to the first centre. All small discs in either family are mutually disjoint, because adjacent centres are one unit apart and their radii have sum strictly below one.
For the row family, the small disc at any is also disjoint from the enlarged disc at ifFor the column family, every small disc at is disjoint from the enlarged disc at by the same estimate, since . Thus the Gershgorin eigenvalue counting theorem certifies one simple eigenvalue near each of from rows, and near each of from columns. The certified small discs from the two families are themselves disjoint, so these are different eigenvalues.
The largest nonnegative certified by these uniform row-and-column separation bounds isMore generally the argument works for . The endpoint is included because all actual entry bounds, and hence all actual radius estimates above, are strict. For , : row discs isolate centres , and column discs isolate centres .
For n=8 and c=13/4 the row Gershgorin discs isolate the four lower centres; the enlarged disc is centred at 8
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For , taking the adjacent entries sufficiently close to makes the enlarged row disc meet the small disc at , and the enlarged column disc meet the small disc at . Hence this particular uniform disc-separation certificate stops there. This is a Gershgorin guarantee, not a necessary spectral threshold: failure of disc separation does not prove repeated or nonreal eigenvalues for the actual matrix.
Finally, a real matrix has nonreal eigenvalues in complex conjugate pairs. Every certified small disc has a real centre and is invariant under conjugation. A nonreal eigenvalue in it would bring its distinct conjugate into the same disc, contradicting its count of exactly one. Therefore all the certified eigenvalues are real and simple. The two-family argument is Complementary row and column Gershgorin isolation.
A real square matrix is an orthogonal matrix when , equivalently its columns form an orthonormal basis. Here is the transpose and the identity matrix. For every vector ,Taking nonnegative square roots provesThus an orthogonal matrix preserves the Euclidean norm.
Since every , the diagonal matrix is invertible. SetThe division is by the diagonal entry of row . Thus is an upper triangular matrix with diagonal entries one and .
To use symmetry without assuming the conclusion, multiply by the matrix inverse of and its transpose:The matrix is symmetric because is a symmetric matrix. It is also an upper triangular matrix, since every factor on the right is an upper triangular matrix. A symmetric upper triangular matrix is diagonal. Its diagonal is exactly , because and have diagonal entries one. Hence , givingThis is the LDL decomposition.
Take the positive square roots of the diagonal entries:The matrix is a lower triangular matrix with positive diagonal, andThis is a Cholesky decomposition. For a nonzero vector , the vector is nonzero because is invertible. ThereforeHere is the Euclidean norm. Thus is a positive-definite matrix.
Past exam of the numerical linear algebra course of the University of Oxford 2025 2 b v Solution 2026-10-25
Write ; the requested expression requires the positive even integer . Split the thin singular value decomposition after columns:Here . Each column of a Gaussian random matrix is an orthogonally invariant random vector: its probability density function is proportional to , and an orthogonal matrix preserves both and volume. Thus , where , again has independent and identically distributed standard normal entries. In particular both displayed blocks have the Gaussian distributions needed below.
First prove a deterministic error bound for a randomized range finder. Put and suppose has full row rank. Its Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse is , so . The QR decomposition implies , henceMultiplication by expresses the missed leading columns in terms of the trailing columns. Substitution into gives the exact identityFor any matrix , the spectral norm of is , because its product with its transpose is . Using submultiplicativity of the operator norm, the orthonormality of , and the contraction property of the orthogonal projection, we obtainThis estimate is deterministic and also covers rank-deficient ; if , its right-hand side vanishes.
Now use the paper's permitted singular value estimates. Apply the lower estimate to the tall matrix of size , rather than to its wide transpose. It givesThe upper estimate for , transposing if necessary, givesThus, with ,Since , the deterministic estimate yieldsThis proves the requested conclusion under the explicitly authorized estimates.
The probabilistic qualification is necessary. A Gaussian random matrix does not always have all its singular values between the two endpoints printed in the hint. Already a example would require for every standard normal random variable , which fails with positive probability. The proof above holds on the event where the two block estimates hold. In a probabilistic formulation one supplies estimates for that event, usually allowing a positive margin in both endpoints; no failure probability is specified by the paper.
Nor can the requested inequality with one universal hold almost surely for every . For example, take , , with , and a sampling matrixAt , the sampled column space misses the first coordinate, so , whereas . Choose . Because has full column rank, its orthogonal projection depends continuously on near through . The strict violation persists in an open neighborhood of . The joint Gaussian probability density function is positive there, so that neighborhood has positive probability. This identifies the missing qualification without weakening the conditional calculation.
Write for the actual successive rotations , , and , each selected using the currently transformed matrix. The first eliminates position ; the second eliminates while leaving row two unchanged. After these, the first column is . The final rotation of rows two and three preserves both zeros in that column and eliminates . HenceA lower-triangular starting matrix does not force any further zeros above the diagonal. For example, the lower-triangular matrix with all entries on and below its diagonal equal to one gives, with the nonnegative pivot convention,which has all upper-triangular entries nonzero.
Inverting the product of rotations yields the QR factorizationThe order reverses when taking the transpose. If is orthogonal, then is both orthogonal and upper triangular. Its first column forces and orthogonality with the other columns forces . Applying the same argument to the remaining block makes diagonal with entries of modulus one.
Past exam of the random matrix theory course of the University of Oxford 2025 1 a i Solution 2026-10-25
Taking the transpose gives , so is a symmetric matrix. For , has the standard normal distribution, whereas has the normal distribution . Distinct upper-triangular entries depend on disjoint sets of the original independent random variables, so they remain independent.
Consequently the joint probability density function, relative to , isHere because is a symmetric matrix. This is the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble, with off-diagonal variance one and diagonal variance two; the rescaled matrix has the corresponding off-diagonal variance.
We will also use its entry covariance. Expanding in the independent entries of , for which , givesThe symbols are Kronecker deltas. This formula includes the diagonal case, where the two terms both contribute.
Write the determinant in its Leibniz formula for determinants, where is the set of permutations of :The permutation sign is justified by the given row-interchange property: a permutation matrix is obtained from the identity matrix by row interchanges, and every interchange changes its determinant by a factor . Reversing a sequence of interchanges constructs the inverse permutation with the same number of interchanges. Consequently . The Leibniz formula for determinants can itself be obtained by expanding the rows multilinearly in the standard basis: repeated selected coordinate rows contribute zero, and the remaining terms are precisely these signed permutation matrices.
Since , the same formula givesReindex the product with and reindex the sum with . Both reindexings are bijections, soThus for every real square matrix, including singular matrices. This proof does not assume the analogous column-operation rules in order to establish the transpose identity.
Build columns by prepending the first row's entries to the columns obtained from the remaining rows:The singleton case turns each entry into a one-element column. In the recursive case,
transpose :: Matrix a -> Matrix a
transpose [] = []
transpose [row] = map (:[]) row
transpose (row : rows) = zipWith (:) row (transpose rows)transpose rows has exactly as many columns as row has entries, so zipWith (:) extends every column once. Structural induction on the number of rows proves that each output column contains the corresponding input entries in order. This uses list zip to implement the transpose, without requiring Num a.A recursive transpose removes the first column, then transposes the remaining columns:The internal recursive calls eventually reach rows of length zero, even though the original input has positive dimensions; the second equation handles this terminating case. Rectangularity ensures that the rows become empty together, so no
transpose :: Matrix a -> Matrix a
transpose [] = []
transpose ([] : _) = []
transpose rows = map head rows : transpose (map tail rows)head or tail is applied to an empty row in the third equation. The output is an matrix with entry . The element type is unrestricted.Reuse For of size and of size , every selected row and column has length . Their dot product isThe two list comprehensions place this entry in row , column of an result. The dimension guard checks exactly the compatibility condition for matrix multiplication. The shared
dimensions and either transpose definition above:multMat :: Num a => Matrix a -> Matrix a -> Matrix a
multMat a b
| colsA /= rowsB = error "multMat: incompatible sizes"
| otherwise = [[sum (zipWith (*) row col) | col <- columnsB]
| row <- a]
where
(_,colsA) = dimensions a
(rowsB,_) = dimensions b
columnsB = transpose bcolumnsB avoids recomputing the transpose for each row; the arithmetic cost is in the unit-cost model.Using the unit length of ,Then ordinary matrix expansion gives . Both and its complementary matrix are projectors. The second calculation in fact holds for every idempotent matrix, without requiring the matrix to equal its transpose.
True. Using the same transpose identity and givesThe final equality follows by multiplying and in either order and obtaining the identity. Thus the inverse is a skew-symmetric matrix as well. The invertibility hypothesis is retained throughout.
True. Transposing the inverse identities shows . If , this becomes , exactly the symmetric matrix condition. The reasoning uses the matrix inverse and transpose identities, without assuming that different matrix factors commute.
True. A square matrix with matrix rank is invertible, and its transpose has the same rank. Applying the rank-nullity theorem to both and gives nullity zero in each case, so both kernels are .
False. Triviality of gives , while triviality of gives because transpose preserves matrix rank. Both conditions therefore force , contradicting the stated unequal dimensions.
The columns of form a basis of , so that null space has dimension . The rank-nullity theorem applied to gives . A matrix and its transpose have equal matrix rank, hence
Split into its symmetric part and skew-symmetric part:Taking the transpose gives and . Thus is a symmetric matrix and a skew-symmetric matrix. These formulas also show uniqueness, since a real matrix that is both symmetric and skew-symmetric is zero.
If is a skew-symmetric matrix, the scalar equals its own transpose, soand it is zero over the real numbers.
Conversely, suppose the quadratic form vanishes for every real vector. Substituting gives . Substituting gives for . Therefore . This proves the quadratic-form criterion for a skew-symmetric matrix:
The determinant is invariant under transpose, while multiplying all rows by multiplies it by . Thus, for odd integer ,Over the real numbers, this forces , so is a singular matrix. This is the odd-dimensional skew-symmetric singularity theorem.