Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. In mathematics, positive semidefinite may refer to: Positive semidefinite ...
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 .
According to that sign, the quadratic form is called positive-definite or negative-definite. A semidefinite (or semi-definite) quadratic form is defined in much the same way, except that "always positive" and "always negative" are replaced by "never negative" and "never positive", respectively.
unstrict inequality signs (less-than or equals to sign and greater-than or equals to sign) 1670 (with the horizontal bar over the inequality sign, rather than below it) John Wallis: 1734 (with double horizontal bar below the inequality sign) Pierre Bouguer
In mathematics, the polar decomposition of a square real or complex matrix is a factorization of the form =, where is a unitary matrix and is a positive semi-definite Hermitian matrix (is an orthogonal matrix and is a positive semi-definite symmetric matrix in the real case), both square and of the same size.
The off-diagonal elements are complex conjugates of each other (also called coherences); they are restricted in magnitude by the requirement that () be a positive semi-definite operator, see below. A density operator is a positive semi-definite , self-adjoint operator of trace one acting on the Hilbert space of the system.
Let denote the space of Hermitian matrices, + denote the set consisting of positive semi-definite Hermitian matrices and + + denote the set of positive definite Hermitian matrices. For operators on an infinite dimensional Hilbert space we require that they be trace class and self-adjoint , in which case similar definitions apply, but we discuss ...
A form is called strongly positive if it is a linear combination of products of semi-positive forms, with positive real coefficients. A real (p, p) -form η {\displaystyle \eta } on an n -dimensional complex manifold M is called weakly positive if for all strongly positive (n-p, n-p) -forms ζ with compact support, we have ∫ M η ∧ ζ ≥ 0 ...