Accession Number:
AD0661387
Title:
SCALING OF MATRICES TO ACHIEVE SPECIFIED COLUMN AND ROW SUMS,
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Corporate Author:
BOEING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH LABS SEATTLE WASH MATHEMATICS RESEARCH LAB
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Report Date:
1967-08-01
Pagination or Media Count:
18.0
Abstract:
If A is an n x n matrix with strictly positive elements, then according to a theorem of Sinkhorn, there exist diagonal matrices D sub 1 and D sub 2 with strictly positive diagonal elements such that D1AD2 is doubly stochastic. This note offers an alternative proof of a generalization due to Brualdi, Parter and Schneider, and independently to Sinkhorn and Knopp, who show that A need not be strictly positive, but only fully indecomposable. In addition, we show that the same scaling is possible with D sub 1 D sub 2 when A is strictly copositive, and also discuss related scaling for rectangular matrices. The proofs given show that D sub 1 and D sub 2 can be obtained as the solution of an appropriate extremal problem. The scaled matrix D1AD2 is of interest in connection with the problem of estimating the transition matrix of a Markov chain which is known to be doubly stochastic. The scaling may also be of interest as an aid in numerical computations. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Statistics and Probability