Advances on the Bessis-Moussa-Villani trace conjecture

Linear Algebra and Its Applications

Volumn 426, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 130-142

  Hillar, Christopher J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bessis Moussa Villani (BMV) conjecture; Euler Lagrange equations; Positive definite matrices; Trace inequality; Words in two matrices

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EULER EQUATIONS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

BESSIS-MOUSSA-VILLANI (BMV) CONJECTURE; FUNCTIONAL INTEGRALS; HERMITIAN; NONNEGATIVE COEFFICIENTS; TRACE INEQUALITY;

POLYNOMIALS;

EID: 34547439324     PISSN: 00243795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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