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Form a bipartite graph with one vertex for each row and one for each column, putting an edge ij exactly where aij​>0. For a set S of row vertices, let N(S) be its neighbouring column vertices. Since A is a doubly stochastic matrix,
∣S∣=∑i∈S​∑j​aij​=∑j∈N(S)​∑i∈S​aij​≤∑j∈N(S)​∑i​aij​=∣N(S)∣.
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The Hall marriage theorem therefore supplies a perfect matching. Its incidence entries define a permutation matrix P supported on the positive entries of A, hence on the ones of B. Entrywise P≤B, so
B=P+C,C=B−P≥0.​
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