The purpose of this paper is to show that ideas and techniques of the homotopy continuation method can be used to find the complete set of eigenpairs of a symmetric matrix. The homotopy defined by Chow, Mallet- Paret and York [I] may be used to solve this problem with 2""-n curves diverging to infinity which for large n causes a great inefficiency. M. Chu 121 introduced a homotopy equation...

A new numerical procedure is proposed to solve the symmetric matrix polynomial equation A T (?s)X(s) + X T (?s)A(s) = 2B(s) that is frequently encountered in control and signal processing. It is based on interpolation and takes fully advantage of symmetry of the equation by reducing the original problem dimension. The algorithm is more eecient and more general than older methods and, namely, it...

For problems of linear control system synthesis, an apparatus of polynomial equations (for single-variable case) and of matrix polynomial equations (for multivariable case) was successfully developed in recent times, cf. [1]. In connection with quadratic criteria, we are led to equations of special type, containing an operation of conjugation ah-* a* representing a(s) i-> a( — s) for continuous...

In this note we consider completions of n×n symmetric (0,−1)-matrices to symmetric alternating sign matrices by replacing certain 0s with +1s. In particular, we prove that any n×n symmetric (0,−1)-matrix that can be completed to an alternating sign matrix by replacing some 0s with +1s can be completed to a symmetric alternating sign matrix. Similarly, any n × n symmetric (0,+1)-matrix that can ...