A primer of Perron--Frobenius theory for matrix polynomials (Q703642)

The authors present an extension of the Perron-Frobenius theory to spectra and numerical ranges of Perron polynomials. Their approach relies on a companion matrix linearization. First, they recount the generalization of the Perron-Frobenius Theorem to Perron polynomials and report some of its consequences. Subsequently, they examine the role of the matrix polynomial in the multistep version of difference equations and provide a multistep version of the fundamental theorem of demography. Finally, they extend some of \textit{J. N. Issos}' results [The field of values of non-negative irreducible matrices. Ph. D. Thesis, Auburn Univ. (1966)] on the numerical range of nonnegative matrices to Perron polynomials.