2011/10/26 by Friedland, Shmuel · 3 citations
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1110.5689
We show that a best rank one approximation to a real symmetric tensor, which in principle can be nonsymmetric, can be chosen symmetric. Furthermore, a symmetric best rank one approximation to a symmetric tensor is unique if the tensor does not lie on a certain real algebraic variety.