The \(k\)th Lower Multiexponent of Tournament Matrices

Bolian Liu1, Wang Yan1
1Department of Mathematics South China Normal University Guangzhou,P.R.China

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the \(k\)th lower multiexponent \(f(n,k)\) for tournament matrices.
It was proved that \(f(m,3) = 2\) if and only if \(m \geq 11\). Thus the conjecture in [2] is disproved. Further we obtain a new sufficient condition for \(f(n,k) = 1\).