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Inverse multiparameter eigenvalue problems for matrices II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Patrick J. Browne
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
B. D. Sleeman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4H4
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This is a sequel to our previous paper [4] where we initiated a study of inverse eigenvalue problems for matrices in the multiparameter setting. The one parameter version of the problem under consideration asks for conditions on a given n × n symmetric matrix A and on n given real numbers s1s2≦…≦sn under which a diagonal matrix V can be found so that A + V has sl,…,sn as its eigenvalues. Our motivation for this problem and our method of attack on it in [4]p comes chiefly from the work of Hadeler [5] in which sufficient conditions were given for existence of the desired diagonal V. Hadeler's approach in [5] relied heavily on the Brouwer fixed point theorem and this was also our main tool in [4]. Subsequently, using properties of topological degree, Hadeler [6] gave somewhat different conditions for the existence of the diagonal V. It is our desire here to follow this lead and to use degree theory to give some results extending those in [6] to the multiparameter case.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1986

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