Semigroup identities of tropical matrices through matrix ranks
Abstract
We prove the conjecture that, for any n, the monoid of all n × n tropical matrices satisfies nontrivial semigroup identities. To this end, we prove that the factor rank of a large enough power of a tropical matrix does not exceed the tropical rank of the original matrix.
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