Nonnegative integral generalized inverses

AbstractNecessary and sufficient conditions are given for a nonnegative integral matrix to have nonnegative integral generalized inverses of various types, and the possible ranks of these inverses are determined. More generally, conditions are also given for matrices to have generalized inverses over certain subsets of the nonnegative reals forming monoids under addition and multiplication. Many of our results are adapted from results of Berman and Plemmons [3–6] on real matrices