Existence and uniqueness of optimal matrix scalings

Existence and uniqueness of optimal matrix scalings

V. Balakrishnan and S. Boyd

SIAM J. on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 16(1):29--39, January 1995.


Abstract: The problem of finding a diagonal similarity scaling to minimize the scaled singular value of a matrix arises frequently in robustness analysis of control systems. We show that the set of optimal diagonal scalings is nonempty and bounded if and only if the matrix that is being scaled is irreducible. For an irreducible matrix, we derive a sufficient condition for the uniqueness of the optimal scaling.
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