Imprimitive matrices of zeros and ones with extremal numbers of ones Original Research Article

In [X. Zhan, Extremal numbers of positive entries of imprimitive nonnegative matrices, Linear Algebra Appl. 424 (2007) 132–138], Zhan determined the maximum and minimum numbers of positive entries of irreducible nonnegative matrices. In this paper, we characterize the irreducible (0,1) matrices with the maximum and minimum numbers of positive entries.