Strong shift equivalence and positive doubly stochastic matrices

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Abstract: We give sufficient conditions for a positive stochastic matrix to be similar and strong shift equivalent over mathbbR+ to a positive doubly stochastic matrix through matrices of the same size. We also prove that every positive stochastic matrix is strong shift equivalent over mathbbR+ to a positive doubly stochastic matrix. Consequently, the set of nonzero spectra of primitive stochastic matrices over mathbbR with positive trace and the set of nonzero spectra of positive doubly stochastic matrices over mathbbR are identical. We exhibit a class of 2imes2 matrices, pairwise strong shift equivalent over mathbbR+ through 2imes2 matrices, for which there is no uniform upper bound on the minimum lag of a strong shift equivalence through matrices of bounded size. In contrast, we show for any nimesn primitive matrix of positive trace that the set of positive nimesn matrices similar to it contains only finitely many SSE-mathbbR+ classes.









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