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An exclusion theorem for tri-diagonal matrices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
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An n × n matrix An = (aij) is tri-diagonal if aij = 0 for |i−j|≧2. The latent roots of such matrices may be conveniently studied by forming the sequence of polynomials Ψk(λ)=|λI−Ak|, where Ak is the principal submatrix of Ak+1 obtained by deleting the last row and column of Ak+1, and then observing that these polynomials satisfy the following recurrence relation:
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