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Is every nearly rank-1 doubly stochastic matrix a product of pairwise averaging matrices?

A doubly stochastic matrix is a square matrix with non-negative real entries where the sum of each row is $1$ and the sum of each column is $1$. A pairwise averaging matrix is a matrix of the form $tA+...
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Maximum volume submatrices of a Khatri-Rao product of matrix exponentials

My question requires quite a bit of setup, which leads to a conjecture. So I split my question into three parts, Setup, Conjecture, and Question. Setup: Pick any two right stochastic matrices $\...
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Existence of a specific stochastic matrix

Let $0\le x_1\le x_2\le \cdots\le x_n\le n-1$ be given. My question is as follows : Under which condition there exists a doubly stochastic matrix $M=(m_{i,j})_{1\le i,j\le n}$ s.t. $$\sum_{j=1}^n (j-1)...
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Mixing time and spectral gap for a special stochastic matrix

Consider the following dimension stochastic matrix, \begin{bmatrix} p & q & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 &...
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On the limit of partial sum of infinite doubly stochastic matrix

Let $A=(a_{ij})$ be an infinite doubly stochastic matrix. Does there necessarily exist a subsequence $\{n_k\}_{k=1}^\infty$ such that $$ \lim_{k\to\infty}\frac{1}{n_k}\sum_{i=1}^{n_k}\sum_{j=1}^{n_k}...
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A question on the partial sum of infinite doubly stochastic matrix

Let $A=(a_{ij})$ be an infinite doubly stochastic matrix. Is the following statement true ? $$ \lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n\sum_{j=1}^na_{ij} >0 $$ Any reference or comment on this is ...
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The expected square of the determinant of a random row stochastic matrix

In this question Anthony Quas asks about the expected absolute value of the determinant of an $n\times n$ row stochastic matrix $A$, where the rows are independently selected from the uniform ...
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Eigenvectors of a perturbed reducible stochastic matrix

Let $Q$ be a $n\times n$ reducible stochastic matrix. Let $J$ be such that $[J]_{ij}={1 \over n}$. Now for a small positive constant $\alpha\in [0,1]$, consider the matrix $$\tilde{Q}\,=\,(1-\alpha)...
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Non-diagonalizable doubly stochastic matrices

Are there constructive examples of doubly stochastic matrices (whose rows and columns all sum up to $1$ and contain only non-negative entries) that are not diagonalizable?
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