Symmetric nonnegative matrix rank-one perturbation D-stability conjecture

Let H\foralRn×nH\foral R^{n\times n} be symmetric and entrywise nonnegative, with geometrically simple spectral-radius eigenvalue ρ(H)\rho(H). Let v,wRnv,w\in\mathbb R^n satisfy v>0v>0 and w>0w>0. Symmetric rank-one perturbation conjecture. The matrix

ρ(H)IH+vwT\rho(H)I-H+v w^T

is D-stable. A preceding counterexample shows that the analogous assertion without symmetry is false, while this symmetric case is raised as an open direction.

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Joris Bierkens and André Ran, “A singular M-matrix perturbed by a nonnegative rank one matrix has positive principal minors; is it D-stable?”, arXiv:1312.2491 (2014).

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