Existence and construction of nonnegative matrices with complex spectrum (Q1399231)

The paper is concerned with the following inverse spectrum problem: Given a family \(\sigma=(\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\ldots,\lambda_n)\) of complex numbers find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a (real) nonnegative \((n\times n)\)-matrix \(A\) with spectrum \(\sigma\). It is based on a characterization due to \textit{W. Guo} [ibid. 266, 261-270 (1997; Zbl 0903.15003)] which guarantees the existence of a solution matrix \(A\) provided that \(\lambda_1\) is a real number satisfying \(\lambda_1\geq 2n \max_{2\leq j\leq n}|\lambda_j|\). From this result the authors derive necessary and sufficient conditions for a certain type of \(\sigma\)'s to be the spectrum of a circulant nonnegative matrix. Also, methods how to find explicit solutions are presented.