{"id":1381,"date":"2026-10-06T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2026-10-06T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:24:36","slug":"from-symmetry-to-computable-block-diagonalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/from-symmetry-to-computable-block-diagonalization\/","title":{"rendered":"From Symmetry to Computable Block Diagonalization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m happy to share that my new mathematics preprint is now available on arXiv:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Uniform Computability of Isotypic Block Diagonalization for Finite-Group Representations<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question behind the paper is simple to state:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Can additional mathematical structure turn a problem that is not computable in general into one that is computable?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In numerical linear algebra, we often exploit symmetry to transform a whole class of matrices into a simpler block-diagonal form. In computable analysis, however, even basic quantities such as the rank of a real matrix can fail to be computable when the matrix is given only through arbitrarily accurate approximations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this paper, I show that for matrix classes arising from finite-group symmetries, the group structure provides enough discrete information to overcome this obstruction and uniformly compute the relevant isotypic block decomposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paper also connects this construction with structured QR and QX factorizations, including the centrosymmetric case that I worked on previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Preliminary results from this work were presented at <a href=\"https:\/\/cca-net.de\/cca2026\/\">CCA 2026<\/a> in Trier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>arXiv:<\/strong> 2610.02547<br><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2610.02547\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2610.02547<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style3 like-1381 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='1381' data-nonce='508e2cf638' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-1381 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style3 unlike-1381 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='1381' data-nonce='508e2cf638' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-1381 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-1381 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m happy to share that my new mathematics preprint is now available on arXiv: Uniform Computability of Isotypic Block Diagonalization for Finite-Group Representations The question behind the paper is simple to state: Can additional mathematical structure turn a problem that is not computable in general into one that is computable? In numerical linear algebra, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,25,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-computable-analysis","category-conferences","category-matrix-decompositions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}