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In this chapter we set the stage for our story. We fix our notation and summarize the linear algebraic background that will be needed for the first part of the book. We present some motivating examples of positive matrices at the very beginning and shall return to these examples later on.
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Bátkai, A., Fijavž, M.K., Rhandi, A. (2017). An Invitation to Positive Matrices. In: Positive Operator Semigroups. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, vol 257. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42813-0_1
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