Wednesday, 8 June 2016

linear algebra - Finding an eigenvalue decomposition of a 2mtimes2m Hermitian matrix




Let A be an m×m matrix with entries in C and with a singular value decomposition A=UΣV. Find an eigenvalue decomposition of the 2m×2m Hermitian matrix: [OAAO].




What I did so far is to denote M=[OAAO]. I know that I need to find a diagonal matrix Λ with the eigenvalues of M and a matrix X with eigenvectors of M such that M=XΛX1.



So Mx=λx[OAAO][x1x2]=λ[x1x2]Ax2=λx1 and Ax1=λx2.




From here, I don't really know where to go with how to find the eigenvectors and relating or using the SVD of A.



Is this a viable approach to proceed?


Answer



Note that if the SVD of A is given by A=UΣV, then we have the following system of equations,
AV=UΣAU=VΣ.



We can write the above system in terms of block matrices,
[0AA0][UV]=[UΣVΣ].

It is also easy to verify that



[0AA0][UV]=[UΣVΣ].


Putting these together, we have
[0AA0][UUVV]=[UΣUΣVΣVΣ]=[UUVV][Σ00Σ].

Pushing the negative sign into the diagonal matrix of singular values, we conclude
[0AA0][UUVV]=[UUVV][Σ00Σ].

Multiplying on the right by [UUVV]1 yields the desired eigenvalue decomposition.


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