A dynamical approach to the Perron-Frobenius theory and generalized Krein-Rutman type theorems (Q1997229)

The authors develop a self-contained elementary dynamical approach towards the theory of the finite-dimensional complex version of the Perron-Frobenius theory. This enables them to prove a generalized finite-dimensional Krein-Rutman (KR) type theorem for complex operators, under rather general assumptions. In the presence of a rotational strong positivity assumption, this result immediately yields a refined complex version of the KR theorem. Next, extensions of these results to infinite-dimensional spaces are studied. Then the case of real bounded linear operators is considered. Employing the complexification technique, one obtains a generalized KR type theorem.