A fast and stable test to check if a weakly diagonally dominant matrix is a nonsingular M-matrix

Azimzadeh, Parsiad

doi:10.1090/mcom/3347

A fast and stable test to check if a weakly diagonally dominant matrix is a nonsingular M-matrix
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by Parsiad Azimzadeh;

Math. Comp. 88 (2019), 783-800

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/3347

Published electronically: May 29, 2018

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Abstract:

We present a test for determining if a substochastic matrix is convergent. By establishing a duality between weakly chained diagonally dominant (w.c.d.d.) L-matrices and convergent substochastic matrices, we show that this test can be trivially extended to determine whether a weakly diagonally dominant (w.d.d.) matrix is a nonsingular M-matrix. The test’s runtime is linear in the order of the input matrix if it is sparse, and quadratic if it is dense. This is a partial strengthening of the cubic test in [J. M. Peña., A stable test to check if a matrix is a nonsingular M-matrix, Math. Comp., 247, 1385–1392, 2004]. As a by-product of our analysis, we prove that a nonsingular w.d.d. M-matrix is a w.c.d.d. L-matrix, a fact whose converse has been known since at least 1964.

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