On a conjecture of C. Johnson |
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Authors: | G T Rublein |
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a Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, U.S.A |
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Abstract: | Given a pair of n×n matricesA and B, one may form a polynomial P(A,B,λ) which generalizes the characteristic polynomial of BP(B,λ). In particular, when A=I (identity), P(A, B,λ) = P(B,λ), the characteristic polynomial of B. C. Johnson has conjectured 1] (among other things) that when A and B are hermitian and A is positive definite, then P(A,B,λ) has real roots. The case n=2 can be done by hand. In this paper we verify the conjecture for n=3. |
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