On a class of positive semidefinite biquadratic forms. (Sur une classe de formes biquadratiques semi-définies positives.)
In this paper, we study positive stability and D-stability of P-matrices.We introduce the property of Dθ-stability, i.e., the stability with respect to a given order θ. For an n × n P-matrix A, we prove a new criterion of D-stability and Dθ-stability, based on the properties of matrix scalings.
The joint spectral radius of a finite set of real matrices is defined to be the maximum possible exponential rate of growth of products of matrices drawn from that set. In previous work with K. G. Hare and J. Theys we showed that for a certain one-parameter family of pairs of matrices, this maximum possible rate of growth is attained along Sturmian sequences with a certain characteristic ratio which depends continuously upon the parameter. In this note we answer some open questions from that paper...
Let be a free module over a noetherian ring. For , let be the ideal generated by coefficients of . For an element with , if , there exists such that .This is a generalization of a lemma on the division of forms due to de Rham (Comment. Math. Helv., 28 (1954)) and has some applications to the study of singularities.
Let A be an n×n irreducible nonnegative (elementwise) matrix. Borobia and Moro raised the following question: Suppose that every diagonal of A contains a positive entry. Is A similar to a positive matrix? We give an affirmative answer in the case n = 4.