The Contraction Mapping Approach to the Perron-Frobenius Theory: Why Hilbert's Metric?

DOI10.1287/moor.7.2.198zbMath0498.15005OpenAlexW2055412056MaRDI QIDQ3963154

Elon Kohlberg, John W. Pratt

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Mathematics of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/582844abdba2f7779ac3b70a8b50b16f7bc90904

zbMATH Keywords

positive eigenvectorcontraction mappingPerron-Frobenius theoremHilbert's projective metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory (15A60) Positive matrices and their generalizations; cones of matrices (15B48)

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