Can One Hear a Matrix? Recovering a Real Symmetric Matrix from Its Spectral Data

The spectrum of a real and symmetric $$N\times N$$ N × N matrix determines the matrix up to unitary equivalence. More spectral data is needed together with some sign indicators to remove the unitary ambiguities. In the first part of this work, we specify the spectral and sign information required for a unique reconstruction of general matrices. More specifically, the spectral information consists of the spectra of the N nested main minors of the original matrix of the sizes $$1,2,\ldots ,N$$ 1 , 2 , … , N . However, due to the complicated nature of the required sign data, improvements are needed in order to make the reconstruction procedure feasible. With this in mind, the second part is restricted to banded matrices where the amount of spectral data exceeds the number of the unknown matrix entries. It is shown that one can take advantage of this redundancy to guarantee unique reconstruction of generic matrices; in other words, this subset of matrices is open, dense and of full measure in the set of real, symmetric and banded matrices. It is shown that one can optimize the ratio between redundancy and genericity by using the freedom of choice of the spectral information input. We demonstrate our constructions in detail for pentadiagonal matrices.

On determinantal recurrence relations of banded matrices

We provide an algorithm based on a less-known result about recurrence relations for the determinants of banded matrices. As a consequence, we prove recent conjectures on the determinants of particular classes of pentadiagonal matrices and simple alternative proofs for other results.

On Spectral Properties of Compact Toeplitz Operators on Bergman Space with Logarithmically Decaying Symbol and Applications to Banded Matrices

Let $L^2({{\mathbb{D}}})$ be the space of measurable square-summable functions on the unit disk. Let $L^2_a({{\mathbb{D}}})$ be the Bergman space, that is, the (closed) subspace of analytic functions in $L^2({{\mathbb{D}}})$. $P_+$ stays for the orthogonal projection going from $L^2({{\mathbb{D}}})$ to $L^2_a({{\mathbb{D}}})$. For a function $\varphi \in L^\infty ({{\mathbb{D}}})$, the Toeplitz operator $T_\varphi : L^2_a({{\mathbb{D}}})\to L^2_a({{\mathbb{D}}})$ is defined as $$\begin{align*} & T_\varphi f=P_+\varphi f, \quad f\in L^2_a({{\mathbb{D}}}). \end{align*}$$The main result of this article are spectral asymptotics for singular (or eigen-) values of compact Toeplitz operators with logarithmically decaying symbols, that is, $$\begin{align*} & \varphi(z)=\varphi_1(e^{i\theta})\, (1+\log(1/(1-r)))^{-\gamma},\quad \gamma>0, \end{align*}$$where $z=re^{i\theta }$ and $\varphi _1$ is a continuous (or piece-wise continuous) function on the unit circle. The result is applied to the spectral analysis of banded (including Jacobi) matrices.

Explicit determinantal formula for a class of banded matrices

In this short note, we provide a brief proof for a recent determinantal formula involving a particular family of banded matrices.