ON TRIANGULAR STOCHASTIC MATRICES

Loewner ([13]) showend the semigroup of the real non-singular totally positive matrices is generated by itsinfinitesimal elements, that is,s the set of all Jacobi matrices with non-negative off-diagonal elements. In general, a semigroup is not completely recreated from the set of its infinitesimal elements. We extend Loewner's work and show that the semi-group of all invertible upper (or lower) triangular stochastic matrices is generated by the set of its infinitesimal elements.