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Properties of a Class of (0,1)-Matrices Covering a given Matrix

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

R. P. Anstee*
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University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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We wish to consider the class of (0,1)-matrices with prescribed row and column sums. Let R = (r1, r2, …, rm) and S= (s1, s2, …, sn) be vectors with nonnegative integral entries and r1 + r2 + … + rm = s1 + s2 + … + sn. We define the class to be the set of m × n (0, 1)-matrices with ith row sum ri and jth column sum sj for 1 ≦ im and 1 ≦ jn.

Gale and Ryser independently found simple necessary and sufficient conditions for to be nonempty [9 , 14]. From R, we form an m × n (0, 1)-matrix Ā as follows. The ith row sum of Ā is ri and the 1‘s are as far to the left as possible. Let be the jth column sum of A. We define the sequence to be the conjugate of the sequence (ri).

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1982

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