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Monotone matrix functions of successive orders
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Abstract:

This paper extends a result obtained by Wigner and von Neumann. We prove that a non-constant real-valued function, $f(x)$, in $C^3(I)$ where $I$ is an interval of the real line, is a monotone matrix function of order $n+1$ on $I$ if and only if a related, modified function $g_{x_0}(x)$ is a monotone matrix function of order $n$ for every value of $x_0$ in $I$, assuming that $f’$ is strictly positive on $I$.
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Additional Information
  • Suhas Nayak
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Caltech, Pasadena, California
  • Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-2125
  • Email: snayak@stanford.edu
  • Received by editor(s): August 25, 2002
  • Published electronically: July 17, 2003
  • Additional Notes: This work was conducted as part of a senior thesis at the California Institute of Technology
  • Communicated by: Jonathan M. Borwein
  • © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 33-35
  • MSC (2000): Primary 15A48; Secondary 15A24, 47A63
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07218-6
  • MathSciNet review: 2021245