A Note on Potentially Power-Positive Sign Patterns

In this note, some properties of potentially powerpositive sign patterns are established, and all the potentially powerpositive sign patterns of order ≤ 3 are classified completely.

• Ber-Lin Yu
• Ting-Zhu Huang

• Sign pattern
• potentially eventually positive sign pattern
• potentially power-positive sign pattern.

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