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Concerning the Minimum Function of a Stochastic Matrix

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Richard Sinkhorn
Richard Sinkhorn*
Affiliation:
University of Houston Houston, Texas
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A square matrix is said to be stochastic if its elements are non-negative and if each of its row sums is equal to one. Thus λ = 1 is always an eigenvalue of a stochastic matrix.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 10 , Issue 5 , December 1967 , pp. 745 - 748
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1967

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