On almost semimonotone matrices with non-positive off-diagonal elements and their generalizations (Q6592909)

Semimonotone matrices are real square matrices for which the operation \(Ax\) does not negate all positive entries of any nonzero, entrywise nonnegative vector \(x\). A matrix \(A\) is almost (strictly) semimonotone if all proper principal submatrices are (strictly) semimonotone and there exists an \(x>0\) such that \(Ax<0\) (\(Ax\leqslant 0\)). The paper concerns some properties of almost (strictly) semimonotone matrices. The authors establish the relations between various classes of (strictly) semimonotone matrices, among the others: \(\mathbf{Z}\)-matrices, \(\mathbf{M}\)-matrices, \(\mathbf{P_0}\)-matrices, positive and nonnegative matrices. They prove that Wendler's conjecture (see [\textit{M. Wendler}, Spec. Matrices 7, 291--303 (2019; Zbl 1433.15035)]) holds under the additional assumption. Moreover, the authors present several properties for almost (strictly) semimonotone matrices.