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A fast and stable test to check if a weakly diagonally dominant matrix is a nonsingular M-matrix
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Math. Comp. 88 (2019), 783-800 Request permission

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. PeΓ±a., 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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  • Parsiad Azimzadeh
  • Affiliation: David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON, Canada N2L 3G1
  • Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, East Hall, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
  • MR Author ID: 1097701
  • Email: parsiad@umich.edu
  • Received by editor(s): January 24, 2017
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 11, 2017, November 14, 2017, and December 14, 2017
  • Published electronically: May 29, 2018
  • © Copyright 2018 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 88 (2019), 783-800
  • MSC (2010): Primary 65F30, 15B48, 15B51; Secondary 65F50
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/3347
  • MathSciNet review: 3882284