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The Gram matrix is positive semidefinite, and every positive semidefinite matrix is the Gramian matrix for some set of vectors. The fact that the Gramian matrix is positive-semidefinite can be seen from the following simple derivation:
In mathematics (specifically linear algebra, operator theory, and functional analysis) as well as physics, a linear operator acting on an inner product space is called positive-semidefinite (or non-negative) if, for every (), , and , , where is the domain of .
The conjugate gradient method can be applied to an arbitrary n-by-m matrix by applying it to normal equations A T A and right-hand side vector A T b, since A T A is a symmetric positive-semidefinite matrix for any A. The result is conjugate gradient on the normal equations (CGN or CGNR). A T Ax = A T b
Positive-definiteness arises naturally in the theory of the Fourier transform; it can be seen directly that to be positive-definite it is sufficient for f to be the Fourier transform of a function g on the real line with g(y) ≥ 0.
Mercer's theorem itself is a generalization of the result that any symmetric positive-semidefinite matrix is the Gramian matrix of a set of vectors. The first generalization replaces the interval [ a , b ] with any compact Hausdorff space and Lebesgue measure on [ a , b ] is replaced by a finite countably additive measure μ on the Borel ...
This implies that at a local minimum the Hessian is positive-semidefinite, and at a local maximum the Hessian is negative-semidefinite. For positive-semidefinite and negative-semidefinite Hessians the test is inconclusive (a critical point where the Hessian is semidefinite but not definite may be a local extremum or a saddle point).
In convex optimization, a linear matrix inequality (LMI) is an expression of the form ():= + + + + where = [, =, …,] is a real vector,,,, …, are symmetric matrices, is a generalized inequality meaning is a positive semidefinite matrix belonging to the positive semidefinite cone + in the subspace of symmetric matrices .