Abstract
Let be a locally finite meet semilattice. Let
be a finite subset of , and let
be a complex-valued function on
. The
-dimensional hypermatrix of order
,
, given by
is called the order meet hypermatrix on
with respect to
. We consider
-dimensional meet hypermatrices of order
. As an example, we consider GCD hypermatrices. We examine the structure of order
meet hypermatrices with respect to
, and provide a structure theoretical result that is a generalization of a known result for
meet matrices. We also give a region in which all the eigenvalues of an
-dimensional order
meet hypermatrix
with respect to a real-valued
lie, and using that we obtain results concerning positive definiteness and E-eigenvalues of meet hypermatrices. Characteristics of meet matrices and the eigenvalues of supersymmetric hypermatrices are under active research, but the eigenvalues of GCD and related hypermatrices have not hitherto been considered in the literature.
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank the anonymous referee for his/her comments and suggestions that helped to improve the paper.
Notes
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