%0 Journal Article %A Cassatella-Contra, Giovanni A %A MaƱas Baena, Manuel %A Tempesta, Piergiulio %T Singularity confinement for matrix discrete Painleve equations %D 2014 %@ 0951-7715 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34735 %X We study the analytic properties of a matrix discrete system introduced by Cassatella and Manas (2012 Stud. Appl. Math. 128 252-74). The singularity confinement for this system is shown to hold generically, i.e. in the whole space of parameters except possibly for algebraic subvarieties. This paves the way to a generalization of Painleve analysis to discrete matrix models. %~