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Products of Zero-One Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John B. Kelly
John B. Kelly*
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Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
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Let P be a finite set with p objects oj, j = 1, 2, … , p, and let {Si}, i = 1, 2, … , n, be a family of n subsets of P. The incidence matrix A = (aij) for the family {Si} is defined by the rules: aij = 1 if 0j, ∈ Si and aij = 0 if 0j ∉ Si. Then, if AAT = B = (bij) (where AT denotes the transpose of A), it is easy to see that bij = |Si ⋂ Sj|, i = 1, … , n, j = 1, … , n, so that the elements of B are integers with bii ⩾ bij ⩾ 0.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 20 , 1968 , pp. 298 - 329
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

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