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Abstract: In this paper, by using normal maps originated by Lewis [A.S. Lewis, Group invariance and convex matrix analysis, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 17 (1996) 927–949], we present a method for producing majorization inequalities on eigenvalues and singular values of matrices. Some classical and new inequalities are derived. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: We study theoretical properties of two inexact Hermitian/skew-Hermitian splitting (IHSS) iteration methods for the large sparse non-Hermitian positive definite system of linear equations. In the inner iteration processes, we employ the conjugate gradient (CG) method to solve the linear systems associated with the Hermitian part, and the Lanczos or conjugate gradient for normal equations (CGNE) method to solve the linear systems associated with the skew-Hermitian part, respectively, resulting in IHSS(CG, Lanczos) and IHSS(CG, CGNE) iteration methods, correspondingly. Theoretical analyses show that both IHSS(CG, Lanczos) and IHSS(CG, CGNE) converge unconditionally to the exact solution of the non-Hermitian positive definite linear system. Moreover, their contraction factors and asymptotic convergence rates are dominantly dependent on the spectrum of the Hermitian part, but are less dependent on the spectrum of the skew-Hermitian part, and are independent of the eigenvectors of the matrices involved. Optimal choices of the inner iteration steps in the IHSS(CG, Lanczos) and IHSS(CG, CGNE) iterations are discussed in detail by considering both global convergence speed and overall computation workload, and computational efficiencies of both inexact iterations are analyzed and compared deliberately. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Two Hermitian matrices are said to be Hermitian-congruent if there exists a nonsingular Hermitian matrix such that . In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for two nonsingular simultaneously unitarily diagonalizable Hermitian matrices A and B to be Hermitian-congruent. Moreover, when A and B are Hermitian-congruent, we describe the possible inertias of the Hermitian matrices C that carry the congruence. We also give necessary and sufficient conditions for any 2-by-2 nonsingular Hermitian matrices to be Hermitian-congruent. In both of the studied cases, we show that if A and B are real and Hermitian-congruent, then they are congruent by a real symmetric matrix. Finally we note that if A and B are 2-by-2 nonsingular real symmetric matrices having the same sign pattern, then there is always a real symmetric matrix C satisfying . Moreover, if both matrices are positive, then C can be picked with arbitrary inertia. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Let K be a field of characteristic not two or three with an automorphism − of order two. Let . We characterize additive mappings T from one F-vector space of Hermitian matrices over K to another that preserve rank less than or equal to one for the following cases: (i) the image of T contains a matrix of rank at least three, (ii) every nonzero endomorphism of F is surjective. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Groß [Linear Algebra Appl. 326 (2001) 215] developed characterizations of the minus and star partial orders between the squares of Hermitian nonnegative definite matrices referring to the concept of the space preordering. In the present paper, his results are generalized by deleting the nonnegative definiteness assumption and supplemented by alternative characterizations. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]