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A new characterization of nonnegativity of Moore-Penrose inverses of Gram operators

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In this article, a new characterization for the nonnegativity of Moore–Penrose inverses of Gram operators over Hilbert spaces is presented. The main result generalizes the existing result for invertible Gram operators.

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Sivakumar, K.C. A new characterization of nonnegativity of Moore-Penrose inverses of Gram operators. Positivity 13, 277–286 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11117-008-2167-1

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