A note on polar decomposition based Geršgorin-type sets Original Research Article

Let image denote a finite-dimensional square complex matrix. In [L. Smithies, R.S. Varga, Singular value decomposition Geršgorin sets, J. Linear Algebra Appl. 417 (2004) 370–380; N. Fontes, J. Kover, L. Smithies, R.S. Varga, Singular value decomposition normally estimated Geršgorin sets, Electron. Trans. Numer. Anal. 26 (2007) 320–329], Professor Varga and I introduced Geršgorin-type sets which were developed from singular value decompositions (SVDs) of B. In this note, our work is extended by introducing the polar SV-Geršgorin set, ΓPSV(B). The set ΓPSV(B) is a union of n closed discs in image, whose centers and radii are defined in terms of the entries of a polar decomposition B=QB. The set of eigenvalues of B, σ(B), is contained in ΓPSV(B).