On convexity properties of the spectral radius of nonnegative matrices (Q798736)

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On convexity properties of the spectral radius of nonnegative matrices
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    On convexity properties of the spectral radius of nonnegative matrices (English)
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    1984
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    New and elementary matrix theoretic proofs are given for two well-known theorems. It is proved that for a nonnegative matrix A, \(\rho (A+D)\) and ln \(\rho\) \((e{}^ DA)\) are convex functions in D, where D is a diagonal matrix and \(\rho\) (B) denotes the spectral radius.
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    nonnegative matrices
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    spectral radius
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    convexity
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    fully indecomposable
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    M-matrices
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