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Keywords:
Boolean matrix; index of convergence; digraph
Summary:
We obtain upper bounds for generalized indices of matrices in the class of nearly reducible Boolean matrices and in the class of critically reducible Boolean matrices, and prove that these bounds are the best possible.
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