A Note on the Exponents of Primitive Companion Matrices

Abstract: A nonnegative matrix

A

is said to be {it primitive} if for some positive integer

m

, entries in

A^{m}

are positive, notationally represented as

A^{m} > 0.

The smallest such

m

is called the {it exponent} of

A

, denoted

e x p (A) .

For the class of primitive companion matrices

X

, we find

e x p (A)

for certain

A i n X .

Thereafter, we find certain numbers in

E_{n} (X)

, where

n imes n

m a t r i x

A

i n

X

. At the end we propose open problems for further research.

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