An inequality for the Perron pair of an irreducible and symmetric nonnegative tensor with application (Q2014674)

\textit{K.-C. Chang} et al. [Commun. Math. Sci. 6, No. 2, 507--520 (2008; Zbl 1147.15006)] generalized the Perron-Frobenius theorem for nonnegative matrices to nonnegative tensors. \textit{L. Zhang} et al. [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 35, No. 2, 437--452 (2014; Zbl 1307.15034)] defined the \(\mathcal M\)-tensor following the definition of an \(M\)-matrix. This paper studies the Perron pair of an irreducible and symmetric nonnegative tensor and the smallest eigenvalue of an irreducible and symmetric nonsingular \(\mathcal M\)-tensor. Some properties of an algebraic simple eigenvalue of symmetric tensors are given and an arithmetic-geometric mean inequality is used in the proof of Theorem 3.3. An inequality about the Perron pair of nonnegative tensors using plane stochastic tensors is obtained. The authors also derive a perturbation bound of the smallest eigenvalue of any irreducible and symmetric nonsingular \(\mathcal M\)-tensors and design a strategy to compute its smallest eigenvalue.