On the bisymmetric nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem

Abstract

We study the bisymmetric nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem (BNIEP). This problem is the problem of finding the necessary and sufficient conditions on a list of n complex numbers to be a spectrum of an n × n bisymmetric nonnegative matrix. Most recently, some of the sufficient conditions for the BNIEP are given by Julio and Soto in [6]. In this article, we give another proof of one result (Theorem 4.3) in [6] and we obtain the result very similar to the one (Theorem 4.2) in [6] using a different method to construct our desired bisymmetric nonnegative matrix. We also give some sufficient conditions for the BNIEP based on the sufficient conditions for the nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem (NIEP) given by Borobia in [1]. We give the condition that is both necessary and sufficient for the BNIEP when n ≤ 4 and then we show that for n = 6, the BNIEP and the symmetric nonnegative eigenvalue problem (SNIEP) are different. Moreover, some sufficient conditions for the bisymmetric positive inverse eigenvalue problem are provided. Finally, we give a new result on a sufficient condition for the BNIEP with the prescribed diagonal entries.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 15A18.