On the Elasticity of the Perron Root of a Nonnegative Matrix
The paper deals with the elasticity of the Perron root \(\lambda\) with respect to \(a_{ij}\), \[ e_{ij}= \frac{a_{ij}}{\lambda} \frac{\partial \lambda}{\partial a_{ij}}, \quad i,j = 1,2,\dots, n, \] where \(A=(a_{ij})\) is an \(n \times n\) nonnegative irreducible matrix. The authors obtain two different proofs of the fact that, for each pair of indices \(i\), \(j\), the quantity \(e_{ij}\) is increasing as a function of \(a_{ij}\), that is \(\frac{\partial e_{ij}}{\partial a_{ij}} \geq 0\). The first proof is matrix theoretic, and it also yields a characterization of the case \(\frac{\partial e_{ij}}{\partial a_{ij}} = 0\). The second proof relies on a well-known principle from the theory of symbolic dynamical systems, the variational principle for pressure. Finally, they also discuss a resulting connection between the elements of the matrix \(A\) and the elements of the group inverse \(\lambda I - A\).
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