On eigenvalues of a matrix arising in energy-preserving/dissipative continuous-stage Runge-Kutta methods (Q2236388)

In this short article, the author proves that a matrix of size \(n \times n\) constructed from the Hilbert matrix of size \(n\) has at least a pair of complex eigenvalues when \(n \geq 2\). This is a matrix-theoretical proof that the AVF collocation method (which is a numerical method for solving some special ordinary differential equations) does not have a large-grain parallelism when its order is larger than 4.