• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.343-352
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• 2006

A real matrix A is called a sign-central matrix if for, every matrix $\tilde{A}$ with the same sign pattern as A, the convex hull of columns of $\tilde{A}$ contains the zero vector. A sign-central matrix A is called a tight sign-central matrix if the Hadamard (entrywise) product of any two columns of A contains a negative component. A real vector x = $(x_1,{\ldots},x_n)^T$ is called stable if $\|x_1\|{\leq}\|x_2\|{\leq}{\cdots}{\leq}\|x_n\|$. A tight sign-central matrix is called a $tight^*$ sign-central matrix if each of its columns is stable. In this paper, for a matrix B, we characterize those matrices C such that [B, C] is tight ($tight^*$) sign-central. We also construct the matrix C with smallest number of columns among all matrices C such that [B, C] is $tight^*$ sign-central.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.10 no.1_2
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• pp.353-360
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• 2002

In this paper we study when a sign pattern matrix A and a sign pattern vector b have the property that the convex hull of the columns of each matrix with sign pattern A contains a vector with sign pattern b. This study generalizes the notion of sign central matrices.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.51-61
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• 1997