The Rayleigh quotient #
The Rayleigh quotient of a self-adjoint operator T
on an inner product space E
is the function
fun x ↦ ⟪T x, x⟫ / ‖x‖ ^ 2
.
The main results of this file are IsSelfAdjoint.hasEigenvector_of_isMaxOn
and
IsSelfAdjoint.hasEigenvector_of_isMinOn
, which state that if E
is complete, and if the
Rayleigh quotient attains its global maximum/minimum over some sphere at the point x₀
, then x₀
is an eigenvector of T
, and the iSup
/iInf
of fun x ↦ ⟪T x, x⟫ / ‖x‖ ^ 2
is the corresponding
eigenvalue.
The corollaries LinearMap.IsSymmetric.hasEigenvalue_iSup_of_finiteDimensional
and
LinearMap.IsSymmetric.hasEigenvalue_iSup_of_finiteDimensional
state that if E
is
finite-dimensional and nontrivial, then T
has some (nonzero) eigenvectors with eigenvalue the
iSup
/iInf
of fun x ↦ ⟪T x, x⟫ / ‖x‖ ^ 2
.
TODO #
A slightly more elaborate corollary is that if E
is complete and T
is a compact operator, then
T
has some (nonzero) eigenvector with eigenvalue either ⨆ x, ⟪T x, x⟫ / ‖x‖ ^ 2
or
⨅ x, ⟪T x, x⟫ / ‖x‖ ^ 2
(not necessarily both).
The Rayleigh quotient of a continuous linear map T
(over ℝ
or ℂ
) at a vector x
is
the quantity re ⟪T x, x⟫ / ‖x‖ ^ 2
.
Instances For
For a self-adjoint operator T
, a local extremum of the Rayleigh quotient of T
on a sphere
centred at the origin is an eigenvector of T
.
For a self-adjoint operator T
, a maximum of the Rayleigh quotient of T
on a sphere centred
at the origin is an eigenvector of T
, with eigenvalue the global supremum of the Rayleigh
quotient.
For a self-adjoint operator T
, a minimum of the Rayleigh quotient of T
on a sphere centred
at the origin is an eigenvector of T
, with eigenvalue the global infimum of the Rayleigh
quotient.
The supremum of the Rayleigh quotient of a symmetric operator T
on a nontrivial
finite-dimensional vector space is an eigenvalue for that operator.
The infimum of the Rayleigh quotient of a symmetric operator T
on a nontrivial
finite-dimensional vector space is an eigenvalue for that operator.