A note on extensions of band matrices with maximal and submaximal invertible blocks (Q2277548)

Completions (or extensions) of band matrices with invertible maximal and submaximal blocks are considered. The authors obtain the so-called linear fractional descriptions for invertible extensions. Say, for given matrices \(F_{ij}\), of size \(\nu_i\times \nu_j\), \(| j-i| \leq m\), all invertible block matrices \(A=(A_{ij})^m_{i,j=1}\) with \(A_{ij}=F_{ij}\), \(| j-i| \leq m\), are of the form \[ A=(HY_++X_-)^{-1}(I-HG)(Y_-G+X_+)^{-1}=(GX_- +Y_+)^{-1}(I-GH)(X_+H+Y_-)^{-1},\] where \(G=(G_{ij})^n_{i,j=1}\) and \(H=(H_{ij})^n_{ij=1}\) satisfy \(G_{ij}=0\) for \(j- i\leq m\), \(H_{ij}=0\) for \(j-i\geq -m\), and \(I-GH\) is nonsingular. Selfadjoint (i.e. \(F_{ij}=F^*_{ji}\), \(| j-i| \leq m)\) and Toeplitz (i.e., \(F_{i,j}=F_{i+1,j+1}\), \(| j-i| \leq m)\) cases are included. Similar results for extensions of the band \(\{F_{ij}|| j-1| \leq m\}\) which allow an \(LU\)- (or \(UL\)-) factorization or have lowest possible rank among all extensions are also obtained.