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A short note on doubly substochastic analog of Birkhoff's theorem

Combinatorics 2018-01-08 v1

Abstract

Let B be an n by n doubly substochastic matrix. We show that B can be written as a convex combination of no more than {\sigma}(B)+t subpermutation matrices, where {\sigma}(B) is the number of nonzero elements in B and t is the number of fully indecomposable components of B^{comp}, the minimal doubly stochastic completion of B obtained by a specific way.

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@article{arxiv.1801.01232,
  title  = {A short note on doubly substochastic analog of Birkhoff's theorem},
  author = {Lei Cao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.01232},
  year   = {2018}
}