Loewner positive entrywise functions, and classification of measurable solutions of Cauchy's functional equations

Dominique Guillot; Apoorva Khare; Bala Rajaratnam

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Loewner positive entrywise functions, and classification of measurable solutions of Cauchy's functional equations

Dominique Guillot·Apoorva Khare·Bala Rajaratnam

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Abstract

Entrywise functions preserving Loewner positivity have been studied by many authors, most notably Schoenberg and Rudin. Following their work, it is known that functions preserving positivity when applied entrywise to positive semidefinite matrices of all dimensions are necessarily analytic with nonnegative Taylor coefficients. When the dimension is fixed, it has been shown by Vasudeva and Horn that such functions are automatically continuous and sufficiently differentiable. A natural refinement of the aforementioned problem consists of characterizing functions preserving positivity under rank constraints. In this paper, we begin this study by characterizing entrywise functions which preserve the cone of positive semidefinite real matrices of rank $1$ with entries in a general interval. Classifying such functions is intimately connected to the classical problem of solving Cauchy's functional equations, which have non-measurable solutions. We demonstrate that under mild local measurability assumptions, such functions are automatically smooth and can be completely characterized. We then extend our results by classifying functions preserving positivity on rank $1$ Hermitian complex matrices.

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Dominique Guillot, Apoorva Khare, Bala Rajaratnam. 2014-04-29. Loewner positive entrywise functions, and classification of measurable solutions of Cauchy's functional equations. https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6297

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