WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
Print ISSN: 1109-2769, E-ISSN: 2224-2880
Volume 16, 2017
Potential Eventual Positivity of One New Tree Sign Pattern
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Abstract: A sign pattern is a matrix whose entries belong to the set {+,−,0}. An n-by-n sign pattern A is said to allow an eventually positive matrix or be potentially eventually positive if there exist some real matrices A with the same sign pattern as A and a positive integer k0 such that Ak > 0 for all k ≥ k0. Identifying the necessary and sufficient conditions for an n-by-n sign pattern to be potentially eventually positive, and classifying the n-by-n sign patterns that allow an eventually positive matrix were posed as two open problems by Berman, Catral, Dealba, et al. In this article, a new tree sign pattern A obtained from one tridiagonal sign pattern by adding one pendent edge are investigated. Some necessary conditions for the sign pattern A to allow an eventually positive matrix are established first. Then all the minimal tree sign patterns that allow an eventually positive matrix are identified. Finally, all the tree sign patterns that allow an eventually positive matrix are classified.
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Pages: 84-93
WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-2769 / 2224-2880, Volume 16, 2017, Art. #11