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Exercise 1

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A square matrix is stochastic if the sum of the entries in each column is one. The Google matrix is computed by taking a combination G=α∗H+(1−α)∗SG=\alpha*H+(1-\alpha)*S of two stochastic matrices. Show that GG must be stochastic.

Hefferon, Linear Algebra, Similarity, Page Ranking, Exercise 1

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