Moore-penrose inverse of the incidence matrix of a tree
Moore-penrose inverse of the incidence matrix of a tree
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DOI:
10.1080/03081089708818496
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
R. Bapat
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作者:
R. Bapat
Let T be a tree with n vertices, where each edge is given an orientation, and let Q be its vertex-edge incidence matrix. It is shown that the Moore-Penrose inverse of Q is the (n−1)× n matrix M obtained as follows. The rows and the columns of M are indexed by the edges and the vertices of T respectively. If e,ν are an edge and a vertex of T respectively, then the (e,ν)-entry of M is, upto a sign, the number of vertices in the connected component of T\e which does not contain ν. Furthermore, the sign of the entry is positive or negative, depending on whether e is oriented away from or towards ν. This result is then used to obtain an expression for the Moore-Penrose inverse of the incidence matrix of an arbitrary directed graph. A recent result due to Moon is also derived as a consequence.