Bounds on the spectral radius of real-valued non-negative Kernels on measurable spaces

Abstract

In this short technical note, we extend a recently published result [Liao2017] on the Perron root (or the spectral radius) of non-negative matrices to real-valued non-negative kernels on an arbitrary measurable space $(\mathrm{E},\mathcal{E})$. To be precise, for any real-valued non-negative kernel $K:\mathrm{E}\times \mathcal{E}\to \mathbb{R}$, we prove that the spectral radius $\rho (K)$ of $K$ satisfies $$\underset{x\in \mathrm{E}}{\inf }\frac{\mathcal{R}K\cdot L(x)}{\mathcal{R}L(x)}\le \rho (K)\le \underset{x\in \mathrm{E}}{\sup }\frac{\mathcal{R}K\cdot L(x)}{\mathcal{R}L(x)},$$ where $L$ is an arbitrary Kernel on $(\mathrm{E},\mathcal{E})$, which is integrable with respect to the left eigenmeasure of $K$ and satisfies $\mathcal{R}L(x)>0$ for all $x\in \mathrm{E}$, and the operator $\mathcal{R}$ is defined by $\mathcal{R}L(x):={\int }_{\mathrm{E}}L(x,\mathrm{d}y)$.

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