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Concerning nonnegative matrices and doubly stochastic matrices

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Sinkhorn, Richard, Knopp, Paul·1967·Pacific Journal of Mathematics

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This paper is concerned with the condition for the convergence to a doubly stochastic limit of a sequence of matrices obtained from a nonnegative matrix A by alternately scaling the rows and columns of A and with the condition for the existence of diagonal matrices A and D 2 with positive main diagonals such that Ώ γ AΏ 2 is doubly stochastic.The result is the following.The sequence of matrices converges to a doubly stochastic limit if and only if the matrix A contains at least one positive diagonal.A necessary and sufficient condition that there exist diagonal matrices A and D 2 with positive main diagonals such that D 1 AD 2 is both doubly stochastic and the limit of the iteration is that AφO and each positive entry of A is contained in a positive diagonal.The form DιAD 2 is unique, and A and D 2 are unique up to a positive scalar multiple if and only if A is fully indecomposable.Sinkhorn [6] has shown that corresponding to each positive square matrix A there is a unique doubly stochastic matrix of the form

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Authors
Sinkhorn, R., & Knopp, P.
Venue
Pacific Journal of Mathematics
Published
1967-05-01
Volume
21
Issue
2
Pages
343-348
ISSN
0030-8730 (ISSN-L)
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W2003447360
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887
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10.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
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