""" The positive semidefinite cone `$S^{n}_{+}$` is the cone consisting of all symmetric positive-semidefinite matrices (as a subset of `$\mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$` """ from sage.all import * # Sage doesn't load ~/.sage/init.sage during testing (sage -t), so we # have to explicitly mangle our sitedir here so that "mjo.symbolic" # resolves. from os.path import abspath from site import addsitedir addsitedir(abspath('../../')) from mjo.symbolic import matrix_simplify_full def unit_eigenvectors(A): """ Return the unit eigenvectors of a symmetric positive-definite matrix. INPUT: - ``A`` - The matrix whose eigenvectors we want to compute. OUTPUT: A list of (eigenvalue, eigenvector) pairs where each eigenvector is associated with its paired eigenvalue of ``A`` and has norm `1`. EXAMPLES:: sage: A = matrix(QQ, [[0, 2, 3], [2, 0, 0], [3, 0, 0]]) sage: unit_evs = unit_eigenvectors(A) sage: bool(unit_evs[0][1].norm() == 1) True sage: bool(unit_evs[1][1].norm() == 1) True sage: bool(unit_evs[2][1].norm() == 1) True """ # This will give us a list of lists whose elements are the # eigenvectors we want. ev_lists = [ (val,vecs) for (val,vecs,multiplicity) in A.eigenvectors_right() ] # Pair each eigenvector with its eigenvalue and normalize it. evs = [ [(l, vec/vec.norm()) for vec in vecs] for (l,vecs) in ev_lists ] # Flatten the list, abusing the fact that "+" is overloaded on lists. return sum(evs, []) def factor_psd(A): """ Factor a symmetric positive-semidefinite matrix ``A`` into `XX^{T}`. INPUT: - ``A`` - The matrix to factor. OUTPUT: A matrix ``X`` such that `A = XX^{T}`. ALGORITHM: Since ``A`` is symmetric and positive-semidefinite, we can diagonalize it by some matrix `$Q$` whose columns are orthogonal eigenvectors of ``A``. Then, `$A = QDQ^{T}$` From this representation we can take the square root of `$D$` (since all eigenvalues of ``A`` are nonnegative). If we then let `$X = Q*sqrt(D)*Q^{T}$`, we have, `$XX^{T} = Q*sqrt(D)*Q^{T}Q*sqrt(D)*Q^{T} = Q*D*Q^{T} = A$` as desired. In principle, this is the algorithm used, although we ignore the eigenvectors corresponding to the eigenvalue zero. Thus if `$rank(A) = k$`, the matrix `$Q$` will have dimention `$n \times k$`, and `$D$` will have dimension `$k \times k$`. In the end everything works out the same. EXAMPLES:: sage: A = matrix(SR, [[0, 2, 3], [2, 0, 0], [3, 0, 0]]) sage: X = factor_psd(A) sage: A2 = matrix_simplify_full(X*X.transpose()) sage: A == A2 True """ # Get the eigenvectors, and filter out the ones that correspond to # the eigenvalue zero. all_evs = unit_eigenvectors(A) evs = [ (val,vec) for (val,vec) in all_evs if not val == 0 ] d = [ sqrt(val) for (val,vec) in evs ] root_D = diagonal_matrix(d).change_ring(A.base_ring()) Q = matrix(A.base_ring(), [ vec for (val,vec) in evs ]).transpose() return Q*root_D*Q.transpose()