Abstract
We show that the perturbation estimate for the matrix equation due to J. Li, is wrong. Our discussion is supported by a counterexample.
1. Introduction and Preliminaries
The following definitions and the notations are the same as in [1]. We denote by the set of complex matrices, by the spectral norm, and by the minimal eigenvalues of .
Consider the matrix equation where for . The existence and uniqueness of its positive definite solution is proved in [2]. Next, consider the perturbed equation where and and are small perturbations of and , respectively. We assume that and are solutions of (1) and (2), respectively. Let
In [3, 4], some comments on perturbation estimates for particular cases of (1) and (2) have been furnished. In this note, we focus on the following recent result obtained by J. Li.
Theorem 1 (see [1, Theorem 5]). Let If then where
2. Counterexample
The following counterexample shows that the perturbation estimates in Theorem 1 are not true in general. Consider Now, we compute and by using so we get Finally, using (8)–(10), we obtain that the hypothesis of Theorem 1 is satisfied, that is, whereas
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The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
Authors' Contribution
All the authors contributed equally to this work and significantly in writing this paper. All the authors read and approved the final paper.