On the exponent of a primitive matrix co
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LeRoy B. Beasley; Steve Kirkland
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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For a primitive matrix A of order n + k having a primitive submatrix of order 71, we prove that the exponent of A is at most (n -1)" + 2k + 1. We characterize those matrices attaining the bound in terms of their directed graphs, and explicitly describe those graphs for the case that k < 2n.