Extreme spectra realization by nonsymmetric tridiagonal and nonsymmetric arrow matrices (Q2298293)

Summary: We consider the following inverse extreme eigenvalue problem: given the real numbers \(\{\lambda_1^{\left(j\right)}, \lambda_j^{\left(j\right)} \}_{j = 1}^n\) and the real vector \(\mathbf{x}^{(n)} = \left(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n\right)\), to construct a nonsymmetric tridiagonal matrix and a nonsymmetric arrow matrix such that \(\{\lambda_1^{\left(j\right)}, \lambda_j^{\left(j\right)} \}_{j = 1}^n\) are the minimal and the maximal eigenvalues of each one of their leading principal submatrices, and \(\left(x^{(n)}, \lambda_n^{(n)}\right)\) is an eigenpair of the matrix. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of such matrices. Moreover our results generate an algorithmic procedure to compute a unique solution matrix.