Article ID: | iaor19961392 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 64 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 173 |
End Page Number: | 178 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1994 |
Journal: | Mathematical Programming (Series A) |
Authors: | Coxson Gregory E. |
Recently Rohn and Poljak proved that for interval matrices with rank-one radius matrices testing singularity is NP-complete. This paper will show that given any matrix family belonging to the class of matrix polytopes with hypercube domains and rank-one perturbation matrices, a class which contains the interval matrices, testing singularity reduces to testing whether a certain matrix is not a P-matrix. It follows from this result that the problem of testing whether a given matrix is a P-matrix is co-NP-complete.