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Recently, there have been found new relations between the zero forcing number and the minimum rank of a graph with the algebraic co-rank. We continue on this direction by giving a characterization of the graphs with real algebraic co-rank…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Carlos A. Alfaro

There are profound relations between the zero forcing number and minimum rank of a graph. We study the relation of both parameters with a third one, the algebraic co-rank; that is defined as the largest $i$ such that the $i$-th critical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Carlos A. Alfaro , Jephian C. -H. Lin

A {\it sign pattern matrix} is a matrix whose entries are from the set $\{+,-, 0\}$. The minimum rank of a sign pattern matrix $A$ is the minimum of the ranks of the real matrices whose entries have signs equal to the corresponding entries…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Marina Arav , Frank J. Hall , Zhongshan Li , Hein van der Holst , John Sinkovic , Lihua Zhang

We show that computing the minimum rank of a sign pattern matrix is NP hard. Our proof is based on a simple but useful connection between minimum ranks of sign pattern matrices and the stretchability problem for pseudolines arrangements. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Amey Bhangale , Swastik Kopparty

Our main result is a sharp bound for the number of vertices in a minimal forbidden subgraph for the graphs having minimum rank at most 3 over the finite field of order 2. We also list all 62 such minimal forbidden subgraphs. We conclude by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-03 Wayne Barrett , Jason Grout , Raphael Loewy

Let $G$ be an undirected graph on $n$ vertices and let $S(G)$ be the set of all $n \times n$ real symmetric matrices whose nonzero off-diagonal entries occur in exactly the positions corresponding to the edges of $G$. The inverse eigenvalue…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-10 Polona Oblak , Helena Šmigoc

In this paper we deal with two aspects of the minimum rank of a simple undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices over a finite field $\FF_q$ with $q$ elements, which is denoted by $\mr(\FF_q,G)$. In the first part of this paper we show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-21 Shmuel Friedland , Raphael Loewy

The Rank Minimization Problem asks to find a matrix of lowest rank inside a linear variety of the space of n x n matrices. The Low Rank Matrix Completion problem asks to complete a partially filled matrix such that the resulting matrix has…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Harm Derksen

A sign pattern matrix is a matrix whose entries are from the set $\{+,-,0\}$. If $A$ is an $m\times n$ sign pattern matrix, the qualitative class of $A$, denoted $Q(A)$, is the set of all real $m\times n$ matrices $B=[b_{i,j}]$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Marina Arav , Frank J. Hall , Zhongshan Li , Hein van der Holst , Lihua Zhang , Wenyan Zhou

We consider the problem of exact low-rank matrix completion from a geometric viewpoint: given a partially filled matrix M, we keep the positions of specified and unspecified entries fixed, and study how the minimal completion rank depends…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Daniel Irving Bernstein , Grigoriy Blekherman , Rainer Sinn

We consider the problem of finding the smallest rank of a complex matrix whose absolute values of the entries are given. We call this minimum the phaseless rank of the matrix of the entrywise absolute values. In this paper we study this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-09 António Pedro Goucha , João Gouveia

Given a graph G, a real orthogonal representation of G is a function from its set of vertices to R^d such that two vertices are mapped to orthogonal vectors if and only if they are not neighbors. The minimum vector rank of a graph is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Xiaowei Li , Michael Nathanson , Rachel Phillips

Matrix rank minimization problems are gaining a plenty of recent attention in both mathematical and engineering fields. This class of problems, arising in various and across-discipline applications, is known to be NP-hard in general. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-06 Yun-Bin Zhao

Let $\mathbf{a} = (a_{i})_{i \geq 1}$ be a sequence in a field $\mathbb{F}$, and $f \colon \mathbb{F} \times \mathbb{F} \to \mathbb{F}$ be a function such that $f(a_{i},a_{i}) \neq 0$ for all $i \geq 1$. For any tournament $T$ over $[n]$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Niranjan Balachandran , Brahadeesh Sankarnarayanan

The nonnegative integer rank of a matrix is a variant of the classical nonnegative rank, introduced in the 1980s, where factorizations are required to have integer entries. While computing nonnegative integer rank is generally very hard, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 João Gouveia , Amy Wiebe

We consider the problem of finding the best nonnegative rank-2 approximation of an arbitrary nonnegative matrix. We first revisit the theory, including an explicit parametrization of all possible nonnegative factorizations of a nonnegative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Etna Lindy , Vanni Noferini , Paul Van Dooren

A vertex ranking of a graph is an assignment of ranks (or colors) to the vertices of the graph, in such a way that any simple path connecting two vertices of equal rank, must contain a vertex of a higher rank. In this paper we study a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Ilan Karpas , Ofer Neiman , Shakhar Smorodinsky

This paper presents strong connections between four variants of the zero forcing number and four variants of the Grundy domination number. These connections bridge the domination problem and the minimum rank problem. We show that the Grundy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Jephian C. -H. Lin

The matrix rank minimization problem has applications in many fields such as system identification, optimal control, low-dimensional embedding, etc. As this problem is NP-hard in general, its convex relaxation, the nuclear norm minimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Donald Goldfarb , Shiqian Ma

Given a set of alternatives to be ranked, and some pairwise comparison data, ranking is a least squares computation on a graph. The vertices are the alternatives, and the edge values comprise the comparison data. The basic idea is very…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-09-07 Anil N. Hirani , Kaushik Kalyanaraman , Seth Watts