Total positivity of sums, Hadamard products and Hadamard powers: Results   and counterexamples
  We show that, for Hankel matrices, total nonnegativity (resp. total positivity) of order r is preserved by sum, Hadamard product, and Hadamard power with real exponent t \ge r-2. We give examples to show that our results are sharp relative to matrix size and structure (general, symmetric or Hankel). Some of these examples also resolve the Hadamard critical-exponent problem for totally positive and totally nonnegative matrices. 
Shaun Fallat, Charles R. Johnson, Alan D. Sokal
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