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Tree tensor networks such as the tensor train (TT) format are a common tool for high-dimensional problems. The associated multivariate rank and accordant tuples of singular values are based on different matricizations of the same tensor. While the behavior of such is as essential as in the matrix case, here questions about the feasibility of specific constellations arise: which prescribed tuples can be realized as singular values of a tensor, and what is this feasible set? We first show the equivalence of the tensor feasibility problem (TFP) to the quantum marginal problem (QMP). In higher dimensions, in case of the TT-format, the conditions for feasibility can be decoupled. By present results for three dimensions for the QMP, it then follows that the tuples of squared, feasible TT-singular values form polyhedral cones. We further establish a connection to eigenvalue relations of sums of Hermitian matrices, which in turn are described by sets of interlinked, so-called honeycombs, as they have been introduced by Knutson and Tao. Besides a large class of universal, necessary inequalities as well as the vertex description for a special, simpler instance, we present a linear programming algorithm to check feasibility and a simple, heuristic algorithm to construct representations of tensors with prescribed, feasible TT-singular values in parallel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work is concerned with approximating the smallest eigenvalue of a parameter-dependent Hermitian matrix A(μ) for many parameter values μ in a domain D ⊂ RP. The design of reliable and efficient algorithms for addressing this task is of importance in a variety of applications. Most notably, it plays a crucial role in estimating the error of reduced basis methods for parametrized partial differential equations. The current state-of-the-art approach, the so-called successive constraint method (SCM), addresses affine linear parameter dependencies by combining sampled Rayleigh quotients with linear programming techniques. In this work, we propose a subspace approach that additionally incorporates the sampled eigenvectors of A(μ) and implicitly exploits their smoothness properties. Like SCM, our approach results in rigorous lower and upper bounds for the smallest eigenvalues on D. Theoretical and experimental evidence is given to demonstrate that our approach represents a significant improvement over SCM in the sense that the bounds are often much tighter, at negligible additional cost. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An important theorem about the existence of principal submatrices of a Hermitian matrix whose graph is a tree, in which the multiplicity of an eigenvalue increases, was largely developed in separate papers by Parter and Wiener. Here, the prior work is fully stated, then generalized with a self-contained proof. The more complete result is then used to better understand the eigenvalue possibilities of reducible principal submatrices of Hermitian tridiagonal matrices. Sets of vertices, for which the multiplicity increases, are also studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this note we introduce a partial ordering in the set of complex Hermitian matrices which coincides with the well-known Löwner ordering when the considered matrices have the same number of negative eigenvalues. Some properties of the new ordering are investigated, and known results for shorted matrices are generalized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]