Dear members,
I have a Matrix that that depends on a parameter "b"
A={{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -2 \[Pi], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -4 \[Pi], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -6 \[Pi], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -8 \[Pi], 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, -10 \[Pi], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 2 \[Pi], 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0,
4 \[Pi], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0,
0}, {0, 0, 0, 6 \[Pi], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
1, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 8 \[Pi], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 10 \[Pi], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1}, {-1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -0.1, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, -(b/2), 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, -0.1, 0, 0, 0, 0, -2 \[Pi], -(b/2), 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -0.1, 0, 0, 0, b/2, -4 \[Pi], -(b/2), 0,
0}, {0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -0.1, 0, 0, 0, b/
2, -6 \[Pi], -(b/2), 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, -0.1, 0, 0, 0, b/2, -8 \[Pi], -(b/2)}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -0.1, 0, 0, 0, b/2, -10 \[Pi]}, {0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, -b, 2 \[Pi], b/2, 0, 0, 0, -0.1, 0, 0, 0,
0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, -(b/2), 4 \[Pi], b/2, 0,
0, 0, -0.1, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0,
0, -(b/2), 6 \[Pi], b/2, 0, 0, 0, -0.1, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, -(b/2), 8 \[Pi], b/2, 0, 0, 0, -0.1, 0}, {0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, -(b/2), 10 \[Pi], 0, 0,
0, 0, -0.1}}
To find the value of b for which one of the eigenvalues crosses the imaginary I am doing this
FindRoot[Max[Re[Eigenvalues[A]]] == 0, {b, 1}]
varies errors rise when executing FindRoot. For intance, "Unable to find all roots of the characteristic polynomial" It seem to me that FindRoot does not take "b" as a variable. Am I using FindRoot correctly?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Jesús