On visualization scaling, subeigenvectors and Kleene stars in max algebra (Q1039747)

A (entrywise) nonnegative matrix \(A\) is called visualized if its elements are \(\leq \lambda(A)\), where \(\lambda(A)\) is the maximum cycle geometric mean of \(A\). It is strictly visualized if there is strict inequality for the entries which do not lie on critical cycles. The main contribution of the article under review is to identify and characterize diagonal matrices \(X\) with a positive diagonal for which \(X^{-1}AX\) is strictly visualized. Here is a sample of the results given: For a definite \(A\), \(X^{-1}AX\) is strictly visualized if and only if \(\text{diag}\,(X)\) is a positive linear combination of all columns of the Kleene star \(A^\star\) of \(A\), \(A\) is irreducible and \(\text{diag}\,(X)\) is a positive log-convex combination of all columns of \(A^\star\). For the unexplained terminology and further results we refer the reader to the paper.