Perron and Frobenius meet Carathéodory

Abstract

We present a new approach of proving certain Carathéodory-type theorems using the Perron-Frobenius Theorem, a classical result in matrix theory describing the largest eigenvalue of a matrix with positive entries. One of the problems left open in this note is whether our approach may be extended to prove similar results in the area, in particular the Colourful Carathéodory Theorem.

arXiv commentnote, 4 pages