Tridiagonal Approach to the Algebraic Environment of Toeplitz Matrices, Part II: Zero and Eigenvalue Problems (Q3977056)

[For part I see ibid. 12, No. 2, 220-238 (1991; Zbl 0728.65020).] The authors continue their investigation of families of symmetric and antisymmetric predictor polynomials in connection with Hermitian Toeplitz matrices and associated reflection coefficients. These polynomials satisfy a three-term recurrence relation, and analogies with the classical theory of orthogonal polynomials. The important problem of computing the zeros of the highest-degree symmetric polynomial is shown to be equivalent to the eigenvalue problem for a unitary Hessenberg matrix. For real data (reflection coefficients), the problem can be further transformed to the eigenvalue problem for a symmetric tridiagonal matrix.