Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, first online, pp. 1-12
Minimal completion of $I\times J$ doubly substochastic matrices
Mohammad Dadkhah, Ali Bayati Eshkaftaki, Seyed Mahmoud Manjegani
Received October 30, 2024. Published online February 26, 2025.
Abstract: For a given $I\times J$ doubly substochastic matrix $A$, by adding a (cardinal) number of columns or rows, we want to obtain a doubly stochastic matrix $D$ that contains $A$ as a sub-matrix. Then it is shown that there are minimal (cardinal) numbers of such cardinal numbers, which we call row sub-defect and column sub-defect of $A$. We also try to obtain these two values in some cases.
Affiliations: Mohammad Dadkhah, Ali Bayati Eshkaftaki (corresponding author), Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Shahrekord University, P.O. Box 115, Shahrekord 88186-34141, Iran, e-mail: mdmathiran@yahoo.com, bayati.ali@sku.ac.ir; Seyed Mahmoud Manjegani, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina, 3737 Wasacana Parkway, Regina Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, Canada, e-mail: manjgani@cc.iut.ac.ir, manjeg1s@uregina.ca