A note on the boundary of the set where the decreasingly ordered spectra of symmetric doubly stochastic matrices Lie (Q2496626)

The author studies the decreasingly ordered spectrum region in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) of all the \(n\times n\) symmetric doubly stochastic matrices with emphasis on the boundary of the region. The author also studies in details the special case of \(n=4\) and in particular resolves the inverse eigenvalue problem for \(4\times 4\) symmetric doubly stochastic matricesof trace zero using a different method from that of \textit{H.~ Perfect} and \textit{L. Mirsky} [Monatsh. Math.~ 69, 35--57 (1965; Zbl 0142.00302)] with extension to trace two. Other properties of \(4\times 4\) symmetric doubly stochastic matrices are also studied.