RESEARCH ARTICLE

On spectrum of Hermitizable tridiagonal matrices

  • Mu-Fa CHEN , 1,2
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  • 1. Research Institute of Mathematical Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
  • 2. School of Mathematical Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Laboratory of Mathematics and Complex Systems (Beijing Normal University), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100875, China

Received date: 01 Jan 2020

Accepted date: 14 Apr 2020

Published date: 15 Apr 2020

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2020 Higher Education Press

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study on the spectrum of Hermitizable tridiagonal matrices. As an illustration of the application of the author’s recent results on Hermitizable matrices, an explicit criterion for discrete spectrum of the matrices is presented, with a slight and technical restriction. The problem is well known, but from the author’s knowledge, it has been largely opened for quite a long time. It is important in various application, in quantum mechanics for instance. The main tool to solve the problem is the isospectral technique developed a few years ago. Two alternative constructions of the isospectral operator are presented; they are helpful in theoretical analysis and in numerical computations, respectively. Some illustrated examples are included.

Cite this article

Mu-Fa CHEN . On spectrum of Hermitizable tridiagonal matrices[J]. Frontiers of Mathematics in China, 2020 , 15(2) : 285 -303 . DOI: 10.1007/s11464-020-0832-2

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