On almost semimonotone matrices with non-positive off-diagonal elements and their generalizations.

In this paper, we examine almost (strictly) semimonotone matrices which are also either Z -matrices or matrices having Property (+ +) and show that both parts of Wendler's conjecture [22] (2019) hold for these matrices. Another important result of this paper is the characterization of copositive matrices beyond the matrices with non-positive off-diagonal elements. We discuss some interesting properties related to the structure of almost (strictly) semimonotone matrices and also present results pertaining to the existence and multiplicity of solutions to the linear complementarity problem associated with an almost strictly semimonotone matrix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]