Strong Monotonicity of Spectral Radius of Positive Operators
  The classic result of Perron and Frobenius states that if $A$ and $B$ are matrices with nonnegative elements, such that $A \leq B$, $A$ is irreducible, and $\rho(A) = \rho(B)$ then $A = B$. We extend this result to a large class of band irreducible positive operators on a large class of Banach lattices and provide examples to show that the conditions we put on operators and Banach lattices cannot be weakened. 
Donald W. Hadwin, Arkady K. Kitover, and Mehmet Orhon
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