Matrix best approximation in the spectral norm

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author Faber, Vance
Liesen, Jörg
Tichý, Petr
author_facet Faber, Vance
Liesen, Jörg
Tichý, Petr
contents We derive, similar to Lau and Riha, a matrix formulation of a general best approximation theorem of Singer for the special case of spectral approximations of a given matrix from a given subspace. Using our matrix formulation we describe the relation of the spectral approximation problem to semidefinite programming, and we present a simple MATLAB code to solve the problem numerically. We then obtain geometric characterizations of spectral approximations that are based on the $k$-dimensional field of $k$ matrices, which we illustrate with several numerical examples. The general spectral approximation problem is a min-max problem, whose value is bounded from below by the corresponding max-min problem. Using our geometric characterizations of spectral approximations, we derive several necessary and sufficient as well as sufficient conditions for equality of the max-min and min-max values. Finally, we prove that the max-min and min-max values are always equal when we ``double'' the problem. Several results in this paper generalize results that have been obtained in the convergence analysis of the GMRES method for solving linear algebraic systems.
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spellingShingle Matrix best approximation in the spectral norm
Faber, Vance
Liesen, Jörg
Tichý, Petr
Numerical Analysis
65F10
We derive, similar to Lau and Riha, a matrix formulation of a general best approximation theorem of Singer for the special case of spectral approximations of a given matrix from a given subspace. Using our matrix formulation we describe the relation of the spectral approximation problem to semidefinite programming, and we present a simple MATLAB code to solve the problem numerically. We then obtain geometric characterizations of spectral approximations that are based on the $k$-dimensional field of $k$ matrices, which we illustrate with several numerical examples. The general spectral approximation problem is a min-max problem, whose value is bounded from below by the corresponding max-min problem. Using our geometric characterizations of spectral approximations, we derive several necessary and sufficient as well as sufficient conditions for equality of the max-min and min-max values. Finally, we prove that the max-min and min-max values are always equal when we ``double'' the problem. Several results in this paper generalize results that have been obtained in the convergence analysis of the GMRES method for solving linear algebraic systems.
title Matrix best approximation in the spectral norm
topic Numerical Analysis
65F10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09687