A characterization of nonnegativity relative to proper cones

Chandrashekaran Arumugasamy, Sachindranath Jayaraman, Vatsalkumar N. Mer

Let $A$ be an $m\times n$ matrix with real entries. Given two proper cones $K_1$ and $K_2$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^n$ and ${\mathbb{R}}^m$, respectively, we say that $A$ is nonnegative if $A…