Abstract

We obtain a lower bound for e( n), the least integer (greater than or equal to 5) that is not the exponent of any nX n primitive, nearly reducible matrix. The main result is that under certain hypotheses about the distance between n and the nearest prime number we have that e( n)> n 2⧸3.

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