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On products of non-negative matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. Hajnal
J. Hajnal
Affiliation:
London School of Economics, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE
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The main theme of this paper is that under wide conditions the product of a large number of square non-negative matrices is close to a positive matrix of rank 1. (A non-negative matrix is one whose elements are non-negative real numbers.)

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 79 , Issue 3 , May 1976 , pp. 521 - 530
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1976

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