Hadamard’s inequality


Let A=(ai⁢j) with 1≤i,j≤n∈ℕ be a square matrixMathworldPlanetmath with complex coefficients. Then the following inequalityMathworldPlanetmath holds:

|det⁡(A)|≤∏i=1n(∑j=1n|ai⁢j|2)12.

Moreover, if A is Hermitian and positive semidefinitePlanetmathPlanetmath, the following inequality holds:

det⁡(A)≤∏i=1nai⁢i,

with equality if and only if A is a diagonal matrixMathworldPlanetmath.

Title Hadamard’s inequality
Canonical name HadamardsInequality
Date of creation 2013-03-22 14:32:21
Last modified on 2013-03-22 14:32:21
Owner mathwizard (128)
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Numerical id 9
Author mathwizard (128)
Entry type Theorem
Classification msc 15A45