2025/04/28 by Pedro Massey, Massey, Pedro G., Noelia B. Rios +3
Mathematics · Computer Science · #Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research #Optimization and Variational Analysis #Advanced Topics in Algebra
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.19780
In this work we establish several commutation principles for optimizers of shifts of spectral functions in the context of Euclidean Jordan Algebras (EJAs). For instance, we show that under certain assumptions, if x is a (local) optimizer of F(x-a) for x∈Ω, where Ω⊂ \mathcal V is a spectral set of an EJA \mathcal V, a∈ \mathcal V and F:\mathcal V→ \mathbb R is a strictly Schur-convex spectral function, then a and x operator commute. We make no further assumption on the smoothness of F; instead, we take advantage of the smoothness (Lie structure) of the Automorphism group of \mathcal V and make use of majorization techniques for the eigenvalues of elements in EJAs. Our approach allows us to deal with several problems considered in the literature, related to strictly convex spectral functions and strictly convex spectral norms. In particular, we use our commutation principles to analyze the problem of minimizing the condition number in EJAs.