SIAM J. MATRIX ANAL. APPL. 2009. Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 289–315
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/125928
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We prove that the class of generalized ultrametric matrices (GUM) is the largest
class of bipotential matrices stable under Hadamard increasing functions. We also show that any
power α ≥ 1, in the sense of Hadamard functions, of an inverse M-matrix is also inverse M-matrix.
This was conjectured for α = 2 by Neumann in [Linear Algebra Appl., 285 (1998), pp. 277–290],
and solved for integer α ≥ 1 by Chen in [Linear Algebra Appl., 381 (2004), pp. 53–60]. We study
the class of filtered matrices, which include naturally the GUM matrices, and present some sufficient
conditions for a filtered matrix to be a bipotential.