Eigenvalue decomposition of a parahermitian matrix : extraction of analytic Eigenvectors

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Weiss, Stephan and Proudler, Ian and Coutts, Fraser Kenneth and Khattak, Faizan Ahmad (2023) Eigenvalue decomposition of a parahermitian matrix : extraction of analytic Eigenvectors. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 71. pp. 1642-1656. ISSN 1053-587X (https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2023.3269664)

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Abstract

An analytic parahermitian matrix admits in almost all cases an eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) with analytic eigenvalues and eigenvectors. We have previously defined a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) domain algorithm which has been proven to extract the analytic eigenvalues. The selection of the eigenvalues as analytic functions guarantees in turn the existence of unique one-dimensional eigenspaces in which analytic eigenvectors can exist. Determining such eigenvectors is not straightforward, and requires three challenges to be addressed. Firstly, one-dimensional subspaces for eigenvectors have to be woven smoothly across DFT bins where a non-trivial algebraic multiplicity causes ambiguity. Secondly, with the one-dimensional eigenspaces defined, a phase smoothing across DFT bins aims to extract analytic eigenvectors with minimum time domain support. Thirdly, we need to check whether the DFT length, and thus the approximation order, is sufficient. We propose an iterative algorithm for the extraction of analytic eigenvectors and prove that this algorithm converges to the best of a set of stationary points. We provide a number of numerical examples and simulation results, in which the algorithm is demonstrated to extract the ground truth analytic eigenvectors arbitrarily closely.

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Weiss, Stephan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3486-7206, Proudler, Ian, Coutts, Fraser Kenneth and Khattak, Faizan Ahmad;
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