A Nontrivial Solution To a Stochastic Matrix Equation

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-28-2015

Department

Mathematics

School

Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Abstract

If A is a nonsingular matrix such that its inverse is a stochastic matrix, the classic Brouwer fixed point theorem implies that the matrix equation AXA = XAX has a nontrivial solution. An explicit expression of this nontrivial solution is found via the mean ergodic theorem, and fixed point iteration is considered to find a nontrivial solution.

Publication Title

East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volume

2

Issue

4

First Page

277

Last Page

284

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