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    Li, Lei; Hattori, Koya

    Electronic notes in theoretical computer science, 01/2009, Letnik: 225
    Journal Article

    A direct approach to the P-matrix or P0-matrix problem is to evaluate all the principal minors of matrix A using standard numerical linear algebra techniques with O(2nn3) computational time complexity. The computational time complexity of the P-matrix problem has been reduced from O(2nn3) to O(2n) by applying recursively a criterion for P-matrices based on Schur complementation. But this algorithm can be not directly applied to test the P0-matrices because the Schur complementation can be not computed when some zero diagonal elements appear. This paper proposes an asymptotic approach for testing P0-matrices with O(2n) computational time complexity. Some numerical examples show that the proposed algorithm is effective for testing P0-matrices.