The Positive Semidefinite Ordering Compared by Differences

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Reason: First published version. Bridges the two phrasings of the ordering on symmetric matrices: X precedes Y in the quadratic-form ordering exactly when the difference Y-X is positive semidefinite.

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Let $n\ge1$ be a natural number, and let $X$ and $Y$ belong to $\mathcal{S}(n)$ , the set of symmetric real $n\times n$ matrices. Then the difference $Y-X$ is symmetric, and the following two statements are equivalent.

1. $X\preceq Y$ , in the positive semidefinite ordering.

2. $Y-X$ is positive semidefinite.

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