ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Positive splittings of matrices and their nonnegative Moore-Penrose inverses

Authors 1, 1

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai - 600 036, India

Abstract

In this short note we study necessary and sufficient conditions for the nonnegativity of the Moore-Penrose inverse of a real matrix in terms of certain spectral property shared by all positive splittings of the given matrix.

Keywords

Moore-Penrose inverse, positive splitting

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Pages:
227-235
Main language of publication
English
Received
2008-03-02
Accepted
2008-04-02
Published
2008
Exact and natural sciences