On products of non-negative matrices
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Vol. 79 (3), 521-530
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500410005252x
Abstract
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.)Keywords
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