On nilpotent incline matrices (Q2566763)

The authors study nilpotent incline matrices. It is proved that an incline matrix is nilpotent if and only if it has index zero and the zero vector is its unique standard eigenvector. The results generalize the corresponding ones on fuzzy matrices and lattice matrices. The authors continue to discuss the issue of nilpotent incline matrices and show that the main results on nilpotent lattice matrices studied by \textit{Y.-j. Tan} [Fuzzy Sets Syst. 151, No.~2, 421--433 (2005; Zbl 1062.06021)] can be generalized to the special classes of inclines. In Section 3 they give some important features of nilpotent incline matrices in terms of standard eigenvectors, principal minors, main diagonals, nilpotent indices and adjoint matrices. In Section 4 they establish some properties of the reduction of nilpotent incline matrices.