On the smallest singular value of multivariate Vandermonde matrices with clustered nodes

We prove lower bounds for the smallest singular value of rectangular, multivariate Vandermonde matrices with nodes on the complex unit circle. The nodes are ``off the grid'', groups of nodes cluster, and the studied minimal singular value is bounded below by the product of inverted distances of a node to all other nodes in the specific cluster. By providing also upper bounds for the smallest singular value, this completely settles the univariate case and pairs of nodes in the multivariate case, both including reasonable sharp constants. For larger clusters, we show that the smallest singular value depends also on the geometric configuration within a cluster.

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