Combinatorial Matrix Theory

by Richard A. Brualdi, Herbert J. Ryser

Overview

The book deals with the many connections between matrices, graphs, diagraphs and bipartite graphs. The basic theory of network flows is developed in order to obtain existence theorems for matrices with prescribed combinatorical properties and to obtain various matrix decomposition theorems. Other chapters cover the permanent of a matrix and Latin squares. The book ends by considering algebraic characterizations of combinatorical properties and the use of combinatorial arguments in proving classical algebraic theorems, including the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem and the Jorda Canonical Form.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107662605
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/23/2014
Series:	Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Richard A. Brualdi is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI, USA.

Pauline van den Driessche is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Dragan Stevanović is a Full Research Professor at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, Serbia.

Stephen Kirkland is a Professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.

Ángeles Carmona is an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

Table of Contents

1. Incidence matrices; 2. Matrices and graphs; 3. Matrices and digraphs; 4. Matrices and bigraphs; 5. Combinatorial matrix algebra; 6. Existence theorems for combinatorially constrained matrices; 7. Some special graphs; 8. The permanent; 9. Latin squares.

Editorial Reviews

"A reader who is familiar with basic results in matrix theory will surely be captivated by this concise self-contained introduction to graph theory and combinatorial ideas and reasoning." S. K. Tharthare, Mathematical Reviews

"...a major addition to the literature of combinatorics." W. T. Tutte, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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