期刊名称:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0161-1712
电子版ISSN:1687-0425
出版年度:2012
卷号:2012
DOI:10.1155/2012/634698
出版社:Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要:The computation of the roots of positive definite matrices arises in nuclear magnetic resonance, control theory, lattice quantum chromo-dynamics (QCD), and several other areas of applications. The Cauchy integral theorem which arises in complex analysis can be used for computing f(A), in particular the roots of A, where A is a square matrix. The Cauchy integral can be approximated by using the trapezoid rule. In this paper, we aim to give a brief overview of the computation of roots of positive definite matrices by employing integral representation. Some numerical experiments are given to illustrate the theoretical results.