| Abstract: | We extend Vandermonde matrices to generalized Vandermonde tensors. We call an mth order n-dimensional real tensor A=(Ai1i2...im) a type-1 generalized Vandermonde (GV) tensor, or GV1 tensor, if there exists a vector v=(v1,v2...vn)T such that Ai1i2...im=vi1i2+i3+...+im-m+1, and call A a type-2 (mth order ndimensional) GV tensor, or GV2 tensor, if there exists an (m-1)th order tensor B=(Bi1i2...im-1) such that Ai1i2...im=Bi1i2...im-1im-1. In this paper, we mainly investigate the type-1 GV tensors including their products, their spectra, and their positivities. Applications of GV tensors are also introduced. |
