Abstract
H-matrices play an important role in the theory and applications of Numerical Linear Algebra. So, it is very useful to know whether a given matrix A¿Cn, n, usually the coefficient of a complex linear system of algebraic equations or of a Linear Complementarity Problem (A¿Rn, n, with aii>0 for i=1,2,...,n in this case), is an H-matrix; then, most of the classical iterative methods for the solution of the problem at hand converge. In recent years the set of H-matrices has been extended to what is now known as the set of General H-matrices, and a partition of this set in three different classes has been made. The main objective of this work is to develop an algorithm that will determine the H-matrix character and will identify the class to which a given matrix A¿Cn, n belongs; in addition, some results on the classes of general H-matrices and a partition of the non-H-matrix set are presented. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
