%0 Journal Article
%T Non-Singularity Conditions for Two Z-Matrix Types
%A Shinji Miura
%J Advances in Linear Algebra & Matrix Theory
%P 109-119
%@ 2165-3348
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/alamt.2014.42009
%X
A real square matrix whose non-diagonal elements are non-positive is called a Z-matrix. This paper shows a necessary and sufficient condition for non-singularity of two types of Z-matrices. The first is for the Z-matrix whose row sums are all non-negative. The non-singularity condition for this matrix is that at least one positive row sum exists in any principal submatrix of the matrix. The second is for the Z-matrix

which satisfies

where

. Let

be the ith row and the jth column element of

, and

be the jth element of

. Let

be a subset of

which is not empty, and

be the complement of

if

is a proper subset. The non-singularity condition for this matrix is

such that

or

such that

for

. Robert Beauwens and Michael Neumann previously presented conditions similar to these conditions. In this paper, we present a different proof and show that these conditions can be also derived from theirs.
%K Z-Matrix
%K M-Matrix
%K Non-Negative Matrix
%K Diagonal Dominance
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=46835