in this paper‎, ‎we study the extremal‎ ‎ranks and inertias of the hermitian matrix expression $$‎ ‎f(x,y)=c_{4}-b_{4}y-(b_{4}y)^{*}-a_{4}xa_{4}^{*},$$ where $c_{4}$ is‎ ‎hermitian‎, ‎$*$ denotes the conjugate transpose‎, ‎$x$ and $y$ satisfy‎ ‎the following consistent system of matrix equations $a_{3}y=c_{3}‎, ‎a_{1}x=c_{1},xb_{1}=d_{1},a_{2}xa_{2}^{*}=c_{2},x=x^{*}.$ as‎ ‎consequences‎, ‎we g...

There are various methods for obtaining the preference vector of pair-wise comparison matrix factors. These methods can be employed when the elements of pair-wise comparison matrix are crisp while they are inefficient for fuzzy elements of pair-wise comparison matrix. In this paper, a method is proposed by which the preference vector of pair-wise comparison matrix elements can be obtained even ...

we present a model and propose an approach to compute an approximate solution of fully fuzzy linear system $(ffls)$ of equations in which all the components of the coefficient matrix are either nonnegative or nonpositive. first, in discussing an $ffls$ with a nonnegative coefficient matrix, we consider an equivalent $ffls$ by using an appropriate permutation to simplify fuzzy multiplications. t...

Pairwise comparison matrices are often used in Multi-attribute Decision Making for weighting the attributes or for the evaluation of the alternatives with respect to a criteria. Matrices provided by the decision makers are rarely consistent and it is important to index the degree of inconsistency. In the paper, the minimal number of matrix elements by the modification of which the pairwise comp...

In this paper‎, ‎we study the extremal‎ ‎ranks and inertias of the Hermitian matrix expression $$‎ ‎f(X,Y)=C_{4}-B_{4}Y-(B_{4}Y)^{*}-A_{4}XA_{4}^{*},$$ where $C_{4}$ is‎ ‎Hermitian‎, ‎$*$ denotes the conjugate transpose‎, ‎$X$ and $Y$ satisfy‎ ‎the following consistent system of matrix equations $A_{3}Y=C_{3}‎, ‎A_{1}X=C_{1},XB_{1}=D_{1},A_{2}XA_{2}^{*}=C_{2},X=X^{*}.$ As‎ ‎consequences‎, ‎we g...

It is shown that the integration measure over the matrix Y in the matrix representation of the Schild action can be fixed from comparison of the Schild matrix model with the random lattice string model for D = 0. It is further checked that the given measure is consistent with the case D = 1 as well. ∗e-mail: [email protected]