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On the Number of Vertices of the Stochastic Tensor Polytope
Linear and Multilinear Algebra
  • Zhongshan Li, Georgia State University
  • Fuzhen Zhang, Nova Southeastern University; Shanghai University - China
  • Xiao-Dong Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - China
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2017
Keywords
  • Birkhoff polytope,
  • Birkhoff-von Neumann theorem,
  • Doubly stochastic matrix,
  • Extreme point,
  • Hypermatrix,
  • Multidimensional matrix,
  • Polytope,
  • Stochastic semi-magic cube,
  • Stochastic tensor,
  • Vertex
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Abstract

This paper studies lower and upper bounds for the number of vertices of the polytope of n x n x n stochastic tensors (i.e. triply stochastic arrays of dimension n). By using known results on polytopes (i.e. the Upper and Lower Bound Theorems), we present some new lower and upper bounds. We show that the new upper bound is tighter than the one recently obtained by Chang et al. [Ann Funct Anal. 2016;7(3):386–393] and also sharper than the one in Linial and Luria’s [Discrete Comput Geom. 2014;51(1);161–170]. We demonstrate that the analog of the lower bound obtained in such a way, however, is no better than the existing ones.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China grant #s: 11571220, 11531001, 11271256; NNSFC-ISF Research Program #: 11561141001
DOI
10.1080/03081087.2017.1310178
Citation Information
Zhongshan Li, Fuzhen Zhang and Xiao-Dong Zhang. "On the Number of Vertices of the Stochastic Tensor Polytope" Linear and Multilinear Algebra Vol. 65 Iss. 10 (2017) p. 2064 - 2075 ISSN: 0308-1087
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/fuzhen-zhang/168/