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Title
A sparsity result on nonnegative real matrices with given spectrum
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Affiliations
- Department of Mathematics, University College, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Abstract
Let σ=(λ_1,...,λ_n) be the spectrum of a nonnegative real n × n matrix. It is shown that σ is the spectrum of a nonnegative real n × n matrix having at most nonzero entries.
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