On matrix structures invariant under Toda-like isospectral flows (Q677898)

A linear transformation \(\tau\) (Toda-like) on the space \(\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}\) of \(n\times n\) real matrices which maps symmetric matrices to antisymmetric ones is introduced. \(\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}\) together with the bilinear operation \(\alpha\), defined by \(\alpha(X,Y)=[X,\tau Y]+[Y,\tau X]\), (where \([U,V]=UV-VU\)) constitute an algebra (usually nonassociative). The paper is mostly devoted to classify a class of such algebras (Toda-like) which arises in connection with eigenvalue computations. The motivation of the paper is to calculate the eigenvalues of large structured symmetric matrices. [Authors' remark: ``This paper is a somewhat condensed version of a report that we wrote in 1995''].