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Least element theory is extended, for linear problems, to general multiple-objective problems, and the pre-Leontief matrix and left-hand matrix inverse notions are generalized.
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Communicated by P. L. Yu
This work was completed while the author was visiting the Center for Advanced Studies and the Department of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia. The author is indebted to the referees for their helpful comments.
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White, D.J. Least elements revisited. J Optim Theory Appl 65, 117–128 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00941163
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00941163