Perron complement and Perron root Original Research Article

For a nonnegative irreducible matrix A, this paper is concerned with the estimation and determination of the unique Perron root or spectral radius of A. We present a new method that utilizes the relation between Perron roots of the nonnegative matrix and its (generalized) Perron complement. Several numerical examples are given to show that our method is effective, at least, for some classes of nonnegative matrices.