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Linear Algebra and its Applications 426 (2007) 290–298 /locate/laa Functional inequalities for max eigenvalues of nonnegative matrices Ludwig Elsner a,∗, Daniel Hershkowitz b a Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany b Mathematics Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel Received 23 February 2007; accepted 27 April 2007 Available online 22 May 2007 Submitted by R.A. Brualdi Dedicated to Hans Schneider on the occasion of his 80th birthday Abstract Let P+n denote the set of all n× n nonnegative matrices. For a fu