For the non-Hermitian and positive semidefinite systems of linear equations, we derive sufficient and necessary conditions for guaranteeing the unconditional convergence of the preconditioned Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting iteration methods. These result is specifically applied to linear systems of block tridiagonal form to obtain convergence conditions for the corresponding block varia...

One of the simplest non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, first proposed by Schwartz in 1960, that may possess a spectral singularity is analysed from the point of view of the non-Hermitian generalization of quantum mechanics. It is shown that the η operator, being a second-order differential operator, has supersymmetric structure. Asymptotic behaviour of the eigenfunctions of a Hermitian Hamiltonian equ...

We will introduce a method to get all universal Hermitian lattices over imaginary quadratic fields Q( √ −m) for all m. For each imaginary quadratic field Q( √ −m), we obtain a criterion on universality of Hermitian lattices: if a Hermitian lattice L represents 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14 and 15, then L is universal. We call this the fifteen theorem for universal Hermitian lattices. Note that t...

Potential algebras are extended from Hermitian to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and shown to provide an elegant method for studying the transition from real to complex eigenvalues for a class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians associated with the complex Lie algebra A1.

Two Hermitian matrices A, B ∈ Mn(C) are said to be Hermitian-congruent if there exists a nonsingular Hermitian matrix C ∈ Mn(C) such that B = CAC. In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for two nonsingular simultaneously unitarily diagonalizable Hermitian matrices A and B to be Hermitian-congruent. Moreover, when A and B are Hermitian-congruent, we describe the possible iner...

We introduce the notion of pseudo-Hermiticity and show that every Hamiltonian with a real spectrum is pseudo-Hermitian. We point out that all the PT -symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians studied in the literature are pseudo-Hermitian and argue that the structure responsible for the reality of the spectrum of these Hamiltonian is their pseudo-Hermiticity not PT -symmetry. We explore the basic pr...

For solving large sparse non-Hermitian positive definite linear equations, Bai et al. proposed the Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting methods (HSS). They recently generalized this technique to the normal and skew-Hermitian splitting methods (NSS). In this paper, we present an accelerated normal and skew-Hermitian splitting methods (ANSS) which involve two parameters for the NSS iteration. W...

In this paper, we first construct a preconditioned two-parameter generalized Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting (PTGHSS) iteration method based on the two-parameter generalized Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting (TGHSS) iteration method for non-Hermitian positive definite linear systems. Then a class of PTGHSSbased iteration methods are proposed for solving weakly nonlinear systems base...

The inertia of a Hermitian matrix is defined to be a triplet composed by the numbers of the positive, negative and zero eigenvalues of the matrix counted with multiplicities, respectively. In this paper, we give various closed-form formulas for the maximal and minimal values for the rank and inertia of the Hermitian expression A + X, where A is a given Hermitian matrix and X is a variable Hermi...