SVD of symmetric complex matrix is giving an unexpected result.
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Landon Chad
am 27 Jul. 2015
Bearbeitet: Alfonso Nieto-Castanon
am 28 Jul. 2015
Suppose I have a symmetric complex matrix A. My understanding is that the the right singular vectors of this matrix should be equal to the complex conjugate of the left singular vectors. However, when I perform the SVD this is not what I am finding. Any help?
clear; clc;
g = randn(5,1) + 1i*randn(5,1);
K = g*g.'; % rank-1 symmetric complex matrix
[U,S,V] = svd(K);
u1 = U(:,1); % left singular vector
v1 = V(:,1); % right singular vector
diff = u1 - conj(v1) % I expect this to be close to zero
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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon
am 28 Jul. 2015
Bearbeitet: Alfonso Nieto-Castanon
am 28 Jul. 2015
Well, yes, they are "equal" up to a constant pure-phase term, which is always arbitrary in SVD (for any left and right singular vectors u and v, u*exp(1i*phi) and v*exp(1i*phi) would solve the SVD problem just as well, i.e. U*S*V'==K with U,V unitary and S nonnegative diagonal).
In this case the following diffU will be approximately zero:
ph = angle(v1(1))+angle(u1(1));
diffU = u1 - conj(v1*exp(-1i*ph));
More generally, for a matrix K with rank>1:
g = randn(5)+1i*randn(5);
K = g*g.';
[U,S,V] = svd(K);
ph = angle(U(1,:))+angle(V(1,:));
V = V*diag(exp(-1i*ph));
diffU = U-conj(V);
will also be approximately zero.
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John D'Errico
am 27 Jul. 2015
Bearbeitet: John D'Errico
am 27 Jul. 2015
Your problem is that there is a difference between .' and ' as operators. I'm not sure why you chose to use .' there, but it was perhaps a poor choice. :)
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Walter Roberson
am 28 Jul. 2015
Sorry, linear algebra is a weakness of mine. I took the course 3 times and still have problems with it.
John D'Errico
am 28 Jul. 2015
Bearbeitet: John D'Errico
am 28 Jul. 2015
Sigh. Choosing to use the wrong operator will make the result invalid. You can't just change operators randomly and expect mathematics to work.
For example, as long as a is finite and non-zero, we expect that a/a == 1.
However, would you also expect a*a == 1? Hey, I just swapped in a different operator. Whats the problem?
Your "understanding" about this result is simply wrong, IF you build K as you did, using the .' operator.
As I point out, IF you use K = g*g', then not surprisingly to me, you get the result that you claimed to have expected.
I think what you are both missing is that a complex symmetric matrix has the property that A==A', where ' is the ctranspose operator, thus the complex CONJUGATE transpose. You simply cannot use .' here when you form K. (People get used to working with real numbers, and then get sloppy about things like transposes.)
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