paper

The Number of Eigenvalues of a Tensor

arXiv:1004.4953 · doi:10.1016/j.laa.2011.05.040

Abstract

Eigenvectors of tensors, as studied recently in numerical multilinear algebra, correspond to fixed points of self-maps of a projective space. We determine the number of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a generic tensor, and we show that the number of normalized eigenvalues of a symmetric tensor is always finite. We also examine the characteristic polynomial and how its coefficients are related to discriminants and resultants.

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