In this extended abstract we define a class of distributions which we shall refer to as multivariate matrix–exponential distributions (MVME). They are defined in a natural way, inspired by the definition of univariate matrix– exponential distributions, as the distributions on R+ having a rational (multidimensional) Laplace transform. A multidimensional rational function is the fraction between ...

We revisit earlier attempts for finding matrix exponential (ME) distributions of a given order with low coefficient of variation (cv). While there is a long standing conjecture that for the first non-trivial order, which is order 3, the cv cannot be less than 0.200902 but the proof of this conjecture is still missing. In previous literature ME distributions with low cv are obtained from special...