The completely positive and doubly nonnegative completion problems

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A real symmetric matrix is called doubly-nonnegative (DN) if it is both positive semidefinite and has nonnegative entries; it is called completely positive (CP) if it can be written in the form \(BB^{T}\) where \(B\) is a rectangular matrix with nonnegative entries. Let \(A\) be an \(n\times n\) partial symmetric matrix where some of the entries are unspecified, and let \(G(A)\) be the graph with vertex set \(\{ 1,2,\dots,n\} \) and edges \((i,j)\) for those pairs where the \((i,j)\)th entry of \(A\) is specified. Suppose that every fully specified principal submatrix of \(A\) is (DN) (respectively, (CP)). Then the authors show that \(A\) can be completed to a (DN) (respectively, (CP)) matrix if and only if \(G(A)\) is a block clique graph (that is, a chordal graph in which every pair of maximal cliques intersect in at most one vertex).




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