Joint Approximate Diagonalization of Positive Definite Hermitian Matrices

  • Authors:
  • Dinh Tuan Pham

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper provides an iterative algorithm to jointly approximately diagonalize K Hermitian positive definite matrices ${\bf\Gamma}_1$, \dots, ${\bf\Gamma}_K$. Specifically, it calculates the matrix B which minimizes the criterion $\sum_{k=1}^K n_k [\log \det\diag(\B\C_k\B^*) - \log\det(\B\C_k\B^*)]$, nk being positive numbers, which is a measure of the deviation from diagonality of the matrices BCkB*$. The convergence of the algorithm is discussed and some numerical experiments are performed showing the good performance of the algorithm.