TY - JOUR
T1 - Supertropical matrix algebra II
T2 - Solving tropical equations
AU - Izhakian, Zur
AU - Rowen, Louis
N1 - Funding Information:
∗The first author was supported by the Chateaubriand scientific post-doctorate fellowship, Ministry of Science, French Government, 2007-2008. This research is supported in part by the Israel Science Foundation, grant No. 448/09. Received August 4, 2009 and in revised form January 27, 2010
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - We continue the study of matrices over a supertropical algebra, proving the existence of a tangible adjoint of A, which provides the unique right (resp. left) quasi-inverse maximal with respect to the right (resp. left) quasi-identity matrix corresponding to A; this provides a unique maximal (tangible) solution to supertropical vector equations, via a version of Cramer's rule. We also describe various properties of this tangible adjoint, and use it to compute supertropical eigenvectors, thereby producing an example in which an n × n matrix has n distinct supertropical eigenvalues but their supertropical eigenvectors are tropically dependent.
AB - We continue the study of matrices over a supertropical algebra, proving the existence of a tangible adjoint of A, which provides the unique right (resp. left) quasi-inverse maximal with respect to the right (resp. left) quasi-identity matrix corresponding to A; this provides a unique maximal (tangible) solution to supertropical vector equations, via a version of Cramer's rule. We also describe various properties of this tangible adjoint, and use it to compute supertropical eigenvectors, thereby producing an example in which an n × n matrix has n distinct supertropical eigenvalues but their supertropical eigenvectors are tropically dependent.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11856-011-0133-2
DO - 10.1007/s11856-011-0133-2
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AN - SCOPUS:80155171896
SN - 0021-2172
VL - 186
SP - 69
EP - 96
JO - Israel Journal of Mathematics
JF - Israel Journal of Mathematics
IS - 1
ER -