Cauchy-Toeplitz matrices and some applications (Q802706)

The paper is dedicated to the matrices \(T_ n=(\frac{1}{i-j+})^ n_{i,j=1}\) that are both Cauchy and Toeplitz. First the author presents some properties of the Cauchy matrices \(A_ n=(\frac{1}{x_ i-y_ j})^ n_{i,j=1}\) \((x_ i\neq y_ j)\) including formulas for \(A_ n^{-1}\). As the author indicates most of these properties were known earlier but were interpreted differently. The core of the paper consists of the following results: For any n, \(\pi -\alpha_ n<\| T_ n\|_ 2<\pi\) where \(\alpha_ n>0,\alpha_ n=O(1/n)\) (Theorem 3.1); let \(0<\epsilon <\pi\) be fixed and let \(\gamma_ n\) be the number of singular values of \(T_ n\) that are \(<\pi -\epsilon.\) Then \(\lim_{n\to \infty}\gamma_ n/n=0\) (Theorem 3.2); \(\lim_{n\to \infty}\| T_ n^{-1}\|_ 2=\infty,\| T_ n^{-1}\|_ 2=O(\sqrt{n})\) (Theorem 3.3.). The applications include the proof that the simple iterative algorithm for the integral equation \(\int^{t}_{0}\frac{1}{t_ 0-t}\phi (t)dt- \int^{t}_{0}k(t_ 0,t)\phi (t)dt=f(t)\) converges for arbitrary initial approximation vector. At the end some open problems are discussed.