A contribution to the normal Hankel problem (Q1014474)

The normal Hankel problem refers to the characterization of the matrices that are normal and Hankel at the same time. This problem is far from being solved completely, except for special cases of Hankel matrices. Recently, the authors have shown that new normal Hankel matrices could be found by seeking real solutions to systems of quadtratic equations parametrized by real \(2\times 2\) matrices \(W\) with determinant one. In the present paper, they give a complete analysis of the case \(W=\text{diag}(\alpha, \alpha ^{-1})\).