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This paper concerns three classes of matrices that are relevant to the linear complementarity problem. We prove that within the class ofP 0-matrices, theQ-matrices are precisely the regular matrices.
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Research supported by Department of Energy, Contract EY-76-S-03-0326 PA # 18.
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Aganagic, M., Cottle, R.W. A note onQ-matrices. Mathematical Programming 16, 374–377 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01582122
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01582122