Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 891840, 2 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/891840

Letter to the Editor

Comment on “Perturbation Analysis of the Nonlinear Matrix Equation ”

Maher Berzig¹ and Erdal Karapınar²

¹Tunis College of Sciences and Techniques, Tunis University, 5 Avenue Taha Hussein, P.O. Box 56, Bab Manara, Tunis, Tunisia

²Department of Mathematics, Atilim University, Incek, 06836 Ankara, Turkey

Received 7 August 2013; Accepted 4 September 2013

Academic Editor: Ahmed El-Sayed

Copyright © 2013 Maher Berzig and Erdal Karapınar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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

Conflict of Interests

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.

References

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