TY - JOUR AU - Puente Muñoz, María Jesús de la PY - 2013 SN - 0023-5954 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44129 T2 - Kybernetika AB - In this paper we give a short, elementary proof of a known result in tropical mathematics, by which the convexity of the column span of a zero-diagonal real matrix $A$ is characterized by $A$ being a Kleene star. We give applications to alcoved... LA - eng M2 - 897 PB - Ceska Akademie Verlag KW - tropical algebra KW - Kleene star KW - normal matrix KW - idempotent matrix KW - alcoved polytope KW - convex set KW - norm TI - On tropical Kleene star matrices and alcoved polytopes TY - journal article VL - 49 ER -