‎The symmetric doubly stochastic inverse eigenvalue problem (hereafter SDIEP) is to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for an $n$-tuple $sigma=(1,lambda_{2},lambda_{3},ldots,lambda_{n})in mathbb{R}^{n}$ with $|lambda_{i}|leq 1,~i=1,2,ldots,n$‎, ‎to be the spectrum of an $ntimes n$ symmetric doubly stochastic matrix $A$‎. ‎If there exists an $ntimes n$ symmetric doubly stochastic ...

‎in this paper, we study some kinds of majorizations on $textbf{m}_{n}$ and their linear or strong linear preservers. also, we find the structure of linear or strong linear preservers which are multiplicative, i.e.  linear or strong linear preservers like $phi $ with the property $phi (ab)=phi (a)phi (b)$ for every $a,bin textbf{m}_{n}$.

in this paper we study the concept of latin-majorizati-on. geometrically this concept is different from other kinds of majorization in some aspects. since the set of all $x$s latin-majorized by a fixed $y$ is not convex, but, consists of :union: of finitely many convex sets. next, we hint to linear preservers of latin-majorization on $ mathbb{r}^{n}$ and ${m_{n,m}}$.

A real or complex n × n matrix is generalized doubly stochastic if all of its row sums and column sums equal one. Denote by V the linear space spanned by such matrices. We study the reducibility of V under the group Γ of linear operators of the form A 7→ PAQ, where P and Q are n×n permutation matrices. Using this result, we show that every linear operator φ : V → V mapping the set of generalize...

Let Ωn denote the set of all n × n doubly stochastic matrices. Two unequal matrices A and B in Ωn are called permanental mates if the permanent function is constant on the line segment t A + (1 − t)B, 0 ≤ t ≤ 1, connecting A and B. We study the perturbation matrix A + E of a symmetric matrix A in Ωn as a permanental mate of A. Also we show an example to disprove Hwang’s conjecture, which states...

Let T be an arbitrary n × n matrix with real entries. We explicitly find the closest (in Frobenius norm) matrix A to T , where A is n × n with real entries, subject to the condition that A is “generalized doubly stochastic” (i.e. Ae = e and eA = e , where e = (1, 1, ..., 1) , although A is not necessarily nonnegative) and A has the same first moment as T (i.e. eT1 Ae1 = e T 1 Te1). We also expl...

We consider the Hamiltonian cycle problem (HCP) embedded in a controlled Markov decision process. In this setting, HCP reduces to an optimization problem on a set of Markov chains corresponding to a given graph. We prove that Hamiltonian cycles are minimizers for the trace of the fundamental matrix on a set of all stochastic transition matrices. In case of doubly stochastic matrices with symmet...