Surprising Determinantal Inequality for Real Matrices.
The inertia of an by symmetric sign pattern is called maximal when it is not a proper subset of the inertia of another symmetric sign pattern of order . In this note we classify all the maximal inertias for symmetric sign patterns of order , and identify symmetric sign patterns with maximal inertias by using a rank-one perturbation.
We discuss the existence of an orthogonal basis consisting of decomposable vectors for all symmetry classes of tensors associated with semi-dihedral groups . In particular, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of such a basis associated with and degree two characters is given.