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matrix p-norm (Definition)

A class of matrix norms, denoted $\Vert\cdot\Vert_p$ is defined as

$\displaystyle \Vert\,A\,\Vert_p = \sup_{x\neq0}\frac{\Vert\,Ax\,\Vert_p}{\Vert\,x\,\Vert_p} \qquad{}x\in\mathbb{R}^n,A\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}. $

The matrix $p$ norms are defined in terms of the vector $p$ norms.

An alternate definition is

$\displaystyle \Vert\,A\,\Vert_p = \max_{\Vert\,x\,\Vert_p=1}\Vert\,Ax\,\Vert_p. $

As with vector $p$ norms, the most important are the 1, 2, and $\infty$ norms. The 1 and $\infty$ norms are very easy to calculate for an arbitrary matrix:

\begin{displaymath} \begin{array}{ll} \Vert\,A\,\Vert_1 & = \displaystyle\max_{1... ...e\max_{1\leq i\leq m}\sum_{j=1}^n\vert a_{ij}\vert. \end{array}\end{displaymath}

It directly follows from this that $\Vert\,A\,\Vert_1 = \Vert\,A^T\,\Vert_\infty$

The calculation of the $2$ norm is more complicated. However, it can be shown that the 2-norm of $A$ is the square root of the largest eigenvalue of $A^TA$ There are also various inequalities that allow one to make estimates on the value of $\Vert\,A\,\Vert_2$

\begin{equation*} \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}\Vert\,A\,\Vert_\infty \leq \Vert\,A\,\Vert_2 \leq \sqrt{m}\Vert\,A\,\Vert_\infty. \end{equation*} \begin{equation*} \frac{1}{\sqrt{m}}\Vert\,A\,\Vert_1 \leq \Vert\,A\,\Vert_2 \leq \sqrt{n}\Vert\,A\,\Vert_1 . \end{equation*} \begin{equation*} \Vert\,A\,\Vert_2^2\leq\Vert\,A\,\Vert_\infty\cdot\Vert\,A\,\Vert_1. \end{equation*} \begin{equation*} \Vert\,A\,\Vert_2 \leq \Vert\,A\,\Vert_F\leq\sqrt{n}\Vert\,A\,\Vert_2. \end{equation*} ($\Vert\,A\,\Vert_F$ is the Frobenius matrix norm)




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AMS MSC15A60 (Linear and multilinear algebra; matrix theory :: Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory)

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bounds need correction by sangwal77 on 2006-01-24 07:35:05
In A_\infinity norm , the bounds need correction, as has already been pointed some other users. Thanks.
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the infinity-norm by diophantus on 2004-03-24 05:44:47
I think the indexes are wrong in the definition of the infinity-norm.
Am I right?
D.A.
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