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Multilinear Functions of Row Stochastic Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Stephen Pierce*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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In the study of inequalities, the cases of equality are often the most difficult and interesting part. The case of equality is, in some sense, a measure of the tightness of the inequality. In this paper, we generalize two inequalities of Brualdi and Newman [1, Theorems 3, 4], but the instances of equality are probably more interesting because of the variety of cases which can occur.

Let A = (aij) be an n × n matrix. Define the permanent of A by

We say that A is row stochastic if all entries are non-negative and all row sums are 1. In [1], several inequalities involving permanents of row stochastic matrices were proved. In two of these results, the case of equality was not determined. We will generalize both of these results to a class of functions which includes the permanent, and determine all cases of equality.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

Footnotes

This work was partially supported by NRC Grant A7862.

References

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