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Completely Positive Tensors and Multi-Hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2015-08-19 v1

Abstract

Completely positive graphs have been employed to associate with completely positive matrices for characterizing the intrinsic zero patterns. As tensors have been widely recognized as a higher-order extension of matrices, the multi-hypergraph, regarded as a generalization of graphs, is then introduced to associate with tensors for the study of complete positivity. To describe the dependence of the corresponding zero pattern for a special type of completely positive tensors--the {0,1}\{0,1\} completely positive tensors, the completely positive multi-hypergraph is defined. By characterizing properties of the associated multi-hypergraph, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for any (0,1)(0,1) associated tensor to be {0,1}\{0,1\} completely positive. Furthermore, a necessary and sufficient condition for a uniform multi-hypergraph to be completely positive multi-hypergraph is proposed as well.

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@article{arxiv.1508.04204,
  title  = {Completely Positive Tensors and Multi-Hypergraphs},
  author = {Changqing Xu and Ziyan Luo and Liqun Qi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.04204},
  year   = {2015}
}
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