On Complex Eigenvalues of M and P Matrices.
If conditional independence constraints define a family of positive distributions that is log-convex then this family turns out to be a Markov model over an undirected graph. This is proved for the distributions on products of finite sets and for the regular Gaussian ones. As a consequence, the assertion known as Brook factorization theorem, Hammersley–Clifford theorem or Gibbs–Markov equivalence is obtained.
We consider a k-tridiagonal ℓ-Toeplitz matrix as one of generalizations of a tridiagonal Toeplitz matrix. In the present paper, we provide a decomposition of the matrix under a certain condition. By the decomposition, the matrix is easily analyzed since one only needs to analyze the small matrix obtained from the decomposition. Using the decomposition, eigenpairs and arbitrary integer powers of the matrix are easily shown as applications.