This paper presents majorization results for PH-generators. Based on the majorization results, bounds on the moments and Laplace-Stieltjes transforms of phase-type distributions are found. Exponential distributions and Coxian distributions are identified to be extremal PH-distributions with respect to all the moments and Laplace-Stieltjes transforms for certain subsets of PH-distributions. UN C...

The singular value decomposition (SVD) is not only a classical theory in matrix computation and analysis, but also is a powerful tool in machine learning and modern data analysis. In this tutorial we first study the basic notion of SVD and then show the central role of SVD in matrices. Using majorization theory, we consider variational principles of singular values and eigenvalues. Built on SVD...

We prove several results majorizing the sequences of Kronecker and/or Jordan indices obtainable after small perturbations to a given matrix pencil. The proofs are simple consequences of a theory of majorization for semi-innnite integer sequences, developed in this paper. In particular , new simple bounds are proved on the indices obtainable after appending a single row or column to a matrix pen...

In this paper we study the concept of Latin-majorizati-\on. Geometrically this concept is different from other kinds of majorization in some aspects. Since the set of all $x$s Latin-majorized by a fixed $y$ is not convex, but, consists of union of finitely many convex sets. Next, we hint to linear preservers of Latin-majorization on $ mathbb{R}^{n}$ and ${M_{n,m}}$.