Symmetric representation of ternary forms associated to some Toeplitz matrices (Q1656999)

Summary: Let \(A\) be an \(n \times n\) complex matrix. Assume the determinantal curve \(\mathbb V_A = \{[(x, y, z)] \in \mathbb{CP}^2 : F_A(x, y, z) = \det(x \Re(A) + y \Im(A) + z I_n) = 0 \}\) is a rational curve. The Fiedler formula provides a complex symmetric matrix \(S\) satisfying \(F_S(x, y, z) = F_A(x, y, z)\). It is also known that every Toeplitz matrix is unitarily similar to a symmetric matrix. In this paper, we investigate the unitary similarity of the symmetric matrix \(S\) and the matrix \(A\) in the Fiedler theorem for a specific parametrized family of \(4 \times 4\) nilpotent Toeplitz matrices \(A\). We show that there are either one or at least three unitarily inequivalent symmetric matrices which admit the determinantal representation of the ternary from \(F_A(x, y, z)\) associated to the specific \(4 \times 4\) nilpotent Toeplitz matrices.