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A note on completing quasi-distance and distance matrices

  • Yulin Zhang EMAIL logo , A. Veloso da Costa and J. M. S. Simões-Pereira
From the journal Special Matrices

Abstract

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a quasi-distance matrix where some positive off-diagonal entries have been prescribed. Moreover, we give an algorithm for obtaining such a matrix. We analyze also the case where distances instead of quasi-distances are considered.

MSC 2010: 15A83; 15B99

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Received: 2019-07-17
Accepted: 2019-11-24
Published Online: 2019-12-02

© 2018 Yulin Zhang et al., published by De Gruyter

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