Nonnegative group inverses (Q1174774)

The main result in this paper is a very technical theorem which characterizes those nonnegative block lower triangular matrices which have a nonnegative group inverse. A consequence (Theorem 2) is that if \(A\) is a real square matrix such that (i) some positive power of \(A\) is a nonnegative matrix, and (ii) the Drazin inverse of \(A\) is nonnegative, then the spectral radius \(\rho\) of \(A\) is an eigenvalue, and the \(\rho\)- eigenspace for \(A\) is spanned by nonnegative eigenvectors.