F Ninio 1976 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 9 1281 doi:10.1088/0305-4470/9/8/017
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Show affiliationsAn elementary proof is given that the statistical mechanical transfer matrix, when symmetric, has a maximum eigenvalue which is non-degenerate and larger than the absolute value of any other eigenvalue. Moreover, the corresponding eigenvector can be chosen so that all its entire entries are strictly positive.
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A Corrigendum for this article has been published in 1977 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 10 1259
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