Positivity of block tridiagonal matrices

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 182-195

  Bohner, Martin ^a   Došlý, Ondřej ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Block tridiagonal matrix; Discrete quadratic functional; Linear Hamiltonian difference system; Sturm Liouville difference equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032217344     PISSN: 08954798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0895479897318794     Document Type: Article

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