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On the latent roots of a doubly stochastic matrix

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Walter Ledermann
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Sussex England
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Under certain general conditions an n x n stochastic matrix P = (pij), where

is known to possess the “ergodic” property. This means that there exists a finite matrix E such that

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1973

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