# Inertia of Loewner Matrices

@article{Bhatia2015InertiaOL,
title={Inertia of Loewner Matrices},
author={Rajendra Bhatia and Shmuel Friedland and Tanvi Jain},
journal={arXiv: Classical Analysis and ODEs},
year={2015}
}
• Published 7 January 2015
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Classical Analysis and ODEs
Given positive numbers p_1 < p_2 < ... < p_n, and a real number r let L_r be the n by n matrix with its (i,j) entry equal to (p_i^r-p_j^r)/(p_i-p_j). A well-known theorem of C. Loewner says that L_r is positive definite when 0 < r < 1. In contrast, R. Bhatia and J. Holbrook, (Indiana Univ. Math. J, 49 (2000) 1153-1173) showed that when 1 < r < 2, the matrix L_r has only one positive eigenvalue, and made a conjecture about the signatures of eigenvalues of L_r for other r. That conjecture is…
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