Construction of real symmetric and per-antisymmetric matrices with prescribed spectrum data (Q2568377)

The goal of this paper is the inverse eigenvalue problem for symmetric and per-antisymmetric matrices. Given a real matrix \(A\), of size \(n \times n\), \(A^F\) denotes the flip-transpose which flips a matrix across its anti-diagonal, that is \(A^F=JA^T\), where \(J\) is the anti-diagonal unit matrix. A real matrix \(A\) is called persymmetric if \(A^F=A\) and per-antisymmetric if \(A^F=-A\). In order to prove the main result of the paper, the author analyzes the following inverse problem: given a symmetric real matrix \(A\), of size \(n \times n\), and a positive number \(\rho\), find \(u \in R^n\) such that \(A+\rho uu^T\) has prescribed eigenvalues \(\{\lambda_i\}_{i=1}^n\). In the main result of the paper the author constructs the real symmetric and per-antisymmetric matrices which have the specified spectral data in the principal submatrices obtained by deleting some central rows and columns.