Chapter 6: Problem 11
Show that if \(B\) is a symmetric nonsingular matrix, then \(B^{2}\) is positive definite.
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Chapter 6: Problem 11
Show that if \(B\) is a symmetric nonsingular matrix, then \(B^{2}\) is positive definite.
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Find the matrix associated with each of the following quadratic forms: (a) \(3 x^{2}-5 x y+y^{2}\) (b) \(2 x^{2}+3 y^{2}+z^{2}+x y-2 x z+3 y z\) (c) \(x^{2}+2 y^{2}+z^{2}+x y-2 x z+3 y z\)
Given that \\[ A=\left(\begin{array}{rrr} 4 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & i \\ 0 & -i & 1 \end{array}\right) \\] find a matrix \(B\) such that \(B^{H} B=A\)
Show that a nonzero nilpotent matrix is defective.
For each of the following matrices, compute the determinants of all the leading principal submatrices and use them to determine whether the matrix is positive definite: (a) \(\left(\begin{array}{rr}2 & -1 \\ -1 & 2\end{array}\right)\) (b) \(\left(\begin{array}{ll}3 & 4 \\ 4 & 2\end{array}\right)\) (c) \(\left(\begin{array}{rrr}6 & 4 & -2 \\ 4 & 5 & 3 \\ -2 & 3 & 6\end{array}\right)\) (d) \(\left(\begin{array}{rrr}4 & 2 & 1 \\ 2 & 3 & -2 \\ 1 & -2 & 5\end{array}\right)\)
Let \\[ A=\left(\begin{array}{rr} 1 & -\frac{1}{2} \\ -\frac{1}{2} & 1 \end{array}\right) \quad \text { and } \quad B=\left(\begin{array}{rr} 1 & -1 \\ 0 & 1 \end{array}\right) \\] (a) Show that \(A\) is positive definite and that \(\mathbf{x}^{T} A \mathbf{x}=\mathbf{x}^{T} B \mathbf{x}\) for all \(\mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{R}^{2}\) (b) Show that \(B\) is positive definite, but \(B^{2}\) is not positive definite.
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