Thomas J. Laffey

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2 papers

math.RA2015

The effect of assuming the identity as a generator on the length of the matrix algebra

Thomas Laffey, Olga Markova, Helena Šmigoc

Let $M_{n} (F)$ be the algebra of $n \times n$ matrices and let $S$ be a generating set of $M_{n} (F)$ as an $F$ -algebra. The length of a finite gener…

math.SP2010

A constructive version of the Boyle-Handelman theorem on the spectra of nonnegative matrices

Thomas J. Laffey

A constructive version of the celebrated Boyle-Handelman theorem on the non-zero spectra of nonnegative matrices is presented.