Generalized tensor equations with leading structured tensors

Abstract Systems of tensor equations (TEs) have received much considerable attention in the recent literature. In this paper, we consider a class of generalized tensor equations (GTEs). An important difference between GTEs and TEs is that GTEs can be regarded as a system of non-homogenous polynomial equations, whereas TEs is a homogenous one. Such a difference usually make the theoretical and algorithmic results tailored for TEs not necessarily applicable to GTEs. To study properties of the solution set of GTEs, we first introduce a new class of so-named Z + -tensors, which includes the set of all P-tensors as a proper subset. With the help of degree theory, we prove that the system of GTEs with a leading coefficient Z + -tensor has at least one solution for any right-hand side vector. Moreover, we study the local error bounds under some appropriate conditions. Finally, we employ a Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to find a solution to GTEs and report some preliminary numerical results.