Lifespan in a Primitive Boolean Linear Dynamical System
Keyword(s):
Let $\mathcal F$ be a set of $k$ by $k$ nonnegative matrices such that every "long" product of elements of $\mathcal F$ is positive. Cohen and Sellers (1982) proved that, then, every such product of length $2^k-2$ over $\mathcal F$ must be positive. They suggested to investigate the minimum size of such $\mathcal F$ for which there exists a non-positive product of length $2^k-3$ over $\mathcal F$ and they constructed one example of size $2^k-2$. We construct one of size $k$ and further discuss relevant basic problems in the framework of Boolean linear dynamical systems. We also formulate several primitivity properties for general discrete dynamical systems.
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