ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
On log-subharmonicity of singular values of matrices
Authors 1
Affiliations
- Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4
Abstract
Let F be an analytic function from an open subset Ω of the complex plane into the algebra of n×n matrices. Denoting by the decreasing sequence of singular values of a matrix, we prove that the functions and are subharmonic on Ω for 1 ≤ k ≤ n.
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