TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Al-Saafin, Doaa A1 - Garloff, Jürgen T1 - Sufficient conditions for symmetric matrices to have exactly one positive eigenvalue JF - Special Matrices N2 - Let A = [a_ij] be a real symmetric matrix. If f:(0,oo)-->[0,oo) is a Bernstein function, a sufficient condition for the matrix [f(a_ij)] to have only one positive eigenvalue is presented. By using this result, new results for a symmetric matrix with exactly one positive eigenvalue, e.g., properties of its Hadamard powers, are derived. KW - Bernstein function KW - Hadamard power KW - Hadamard inverse KW - Infinitely divisible matrix KW - Conditionally negative semidefinite matrix Y1 - 2020 SN - 2300-7451 SS - 2300-7451 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/spma-2020-0009 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/spma-2020-0009 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 98 EP - 103 PB - De Gruyter CY - Warsaw ER -