Sarymsakov-Type Semigroups With Support Dominance and Nested Mixing Cores
Abstract
This note develops three multiplication-closed families of stochastic matrices for consensus under arbitrary switching. The first is a support-dominance enlargement of an earlier power-generated construction, in which exact support-pattern matching is relaxed to a dominance-type condition without losing closure under multiplication. The second is a fixed-core class with an exact uniform scrambling horizon and corresponding convergence-rate guarantees for switching products. The third and main contribution is the almost Sarymsakov class, obtained by allowing variable mixing-core dimensions under suitable structural conditions. This new semigroup class properly contains the classical Sarymsakov class and admits a dimension-only scrambling-horizon bound. Examples illustrate the necessity of the proposed structural assumptions and clarify the sharpness or limitations of the derived bounds.
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BibTeX
@misc{hsu2026sarymsakovtype,
title = {{Sarymsakov-Type Semigroups With Support Dominance and Nested Mixing Cores}},
author = {Shun-Pin Hsu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.05050},
eprint = {2609.05050},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05050},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Sarymsakov-Type Semigroups With Support Dominance and Nested Mixing Cores
AU - Shun-Pin Hsu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/04
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.05050
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05050
AB - This note develops three multiplication-closed families of stochastic matrices for consensus under arbitrary switching. The first is a support-dominance enlargement of an earlier power-generated construction, in which exact support-pattern matching is relaxed to a dominance-type condition without losing closure under multiplication. The second is a fixed-core class with an exact uniform scrambling horizon and corresponding convergence-rate guarantees for switching products. The third and main contribution is the almost Sarymsakov class, obtained by allowing variable mixing-core dimensions under suitable structural conditions. This new semigroup class properly contains the classical Sarymsakov class and admits a dimension-only scrambling-horizon bound. Examples illustrate the necessity of the proposed structural assumptions and clarify the sharpness or limitations of the derived bounds.
ER -