aDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, School of Informatics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, PR China
bDepartment of Mathematics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, PR China
Abstract:
In X. Zhan, Extremal numbers of positive entries of imprimitive nonnegative matrices, Linear Algebra Appl. 424 (2007) 132–138], Zhan determined the maximum and minimum numbers of positive entries of irreducible nonnegative matrices. In this paper, we characterize the irreducible (0,1) matrices with the maximum and minimum numbers of positive entries.