Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4603029 Linear Algebra and its Applications 2009 16 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper, we study the totally nonnegative completion problem when the partial totally nonnegative matrix is non-combinatorially symmetric. In general, this type of partial matrix does not have a totally nonnegative completion. Here, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for completion of a partial totally nonnegative matrix to a totally nonnegative matrix in the cases where the digraph of the off-diagonal specified entries takes certain forms as path, cycles, alternate paths, block graphs, etc., distinguishing between the monotonically and non-monotonically labeled case.

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