The Tropical Matrix Groups with Symmetric Idempotents

In this paper we study the semigroup Mn(T) of all n×n tropical matrices under multiplication. We give a description of the tropical matrix groups containing a diagonal block idempotent matrix in which the main diagonal blocks are real matrices and other blocks are zero matrices. We show that each no...

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Main Author: Lin Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4797638
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Summary:In this paper we study the semigroup Mn(T) of all n×n tropical matrices under multiplication. We give a description of the tropical matrix groups containing a diagonal block idempotent matrix in which the main diagonal blocks are real matrices and other blocks are zero matrices. We show that each nonsingular symmetric idempotent matrix is equivalent to this type of block diagonal matrix. Based upon this result, we give some decompositions of the maximal subgroups of Mn(T) which contain symmetric idempotents.
ISSN:1026-0226
1607-887X