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On the Unique Solvability of the Absolute Value Equation

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In this paper, the unique solvability of the absolute value equation is further discussed. From the perspective of some special matrices and iteration forms, some new and useful results for the unique solvability of the absolute value equation are obtained.

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The authors would like to thank two anonymous referees for providing helpful suggestions, which greatly improved the paper. This research was supported by NSFC (No. 11301009) and by Natural Science Foundations of Henan Province (No. 15A110007).

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Wu, SL., Guo, P. On the Unique Solvability of the Absolute Value Equation. J Optim Theory Appl 169, 705–712 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-015-0845-2

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