“…Symmetric algebraic Riccati equations have been the topic of extensive research, and the theory, applications, and numerical solutions of these equations are the subject of [5,6,7,8] as well as the monographs [21,29]. The minimal positive solution to the NARE (1.1), for medium size problems without the sparseness and low-ranked assumptions, has been studied recently by several authors, employing functional iterations, Newton's method, and the structure-preserving algorithm; see [1,3,4,12,13,14,15,16,17,22,23,26,27,30,31], and the references therein. Evidently, the applications associated with and the numerical solution to NAREs have attracted much attention in the past decade but this paper is the first on general large-scale NAREs.…”