On (conditional) positive semidefiniteness in a matrix-valued context

Fritz Gesztesy¹ ; Michael Pang²

¹Department of Mathematics University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211, U.S.A. and Department of Mathematics Baylor University One Bear Place #97328 Waco, TX 76798-7328, U.S.A.
²Department of Mathematics University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211, U.S.A.

Studia Mathematica, Tome 236 (2017) no. 2, pp. 143-192

Résumé

In a nutshell, we intend to extend Schoenberg’s classical theorem connecting conditionally positive semidefinite functions $F : \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{C}$, $n \in \mathbb{N}$, and their positive semidefinite exponentials $\exp(tF)$, $t \gt 0$, to the case of matrix-valued functions $F \colon \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{C}^{m \times m}$, $m \in \mathbb{N}$. Moreover, we study the closely associated property that $\exp(t F(- i \nabla))$, $t \gt 0$, is positivity preserving and its failure to extend directly in the matrix-valued context.

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DOI : 10.4064/sm8531-7-2016

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