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Main Authors: Kulkarni, Ayush, Colley, Charles, Gleich, David F.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19902
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author Kulkarni, Ayush
Colley, Charles
Gleich, David F.
author_facet Kulkarni, Ayush
Colley, Charles
Gleich, David F.
contents We illustrate a counterexample to an open question related to the dominant H-eigenvector of a Kronecker product of tensors. For matrices and Z-eigenvectors of tensors, the dominant eigenvector of a Kronecker product decouples into a product of eigenvectors of the tensors underlying the Kronecker product. This does not occur for H-eigenvectors and indeed, the largest H-eigenvalue can exceed the product of the H-eigenvalues of the component tensors. Beyond this general counterexample, we show this decoupling does hold in the case of diagonal tensors as well as nonnegative tensors.
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spellingShingle Dominant H-Eigenvectors of Tensor Kronecker Products Do Not Decouple
Kulkarni, Ayush
Colley, Charles
Gleich, David F.
Numerical Analysis
We illustrate a counterexample to an open question related to the dominant H-eigenvector of a Kronecker product of tensors. For matrices and Z-eigenvectors of tensors, the dominant eigenvector of a Kronecker product decouples into a product of eigenvectors of the tensors underlying the Kronecker product. This does not occur for H-eigenvectors and indeed, the largest H-eigenvalue can exceed the product of the H-eigenvalues of the component tensors. Beyond this general counterexample, we show this decoupling does hold in the case of diagonal tensors as well as nonnegative tensors.
title Dominant H-Eigenvectors of Tensor Kronecker Products Do Not Decouple
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19902