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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).
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In mathematics, Sylvester’s criterion is a necessary and sufficient criterion to determine whether a Hermitian matrix is positive-definite. Sylvester's criterion states that a n × n Hermitian matrix M is positive-definite if and only if all the following matrices have a positive determinant: the upper left 1-by-1 corner of M,
A Hermitian diagonally dominant matrix with real non-negative diagonal entries is positive semidefinite. This follows from the eigenvalues being real, and Gershgorin's circle theorem. If the symmetry requirement is eliminated, such a matrix is not necessarily positive semidefinite. For example, consider
In cases 1 and 2, the requirement that f xx f yy − f xy 2 is positive at (x, y) implies that f xx and f yy have the same sign there. Therefore, the second condition, that f xx be greater (or less) than zero, could equivalently be that f yy or tr( H ) = f xx + f yy be greater (or less) than zero at that point.
In contrast with the complex case, a positive-semidefinite operator on a real Hilbert space may not be symmetric. As a counterexample, define A : R 2 → R 2 {\displaystyle A:\mathbb {R} ^{2}\to \mathbb {R} ^{2}} to be an operator of rotation by an acute angle φ ∈ ( − π / 2 , π / 2 ) . {\displaystyle \varphi \in (-\pi /2,\pi /2).}
The FIM is a N × N positive semidefinite matrix. If it is positive definite, then it defines a Riemannian metric [11] on the N-dimensional parameter space. The topic information geometry uses this to connect Fisher information to differential geometry, and in that context, this metric is known as the Fisher information metric.