“…These topics are also closely related to the unitary counterpart of Jacobi, the CMV matrices, which date back to works on the unitary eigenproblem [4,8,81], a decade before their rediscovery in the context of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle [11,70,71]. It was later realized that CMV matrices provide the Lax pair of integrable systems known under the name of Schur flows (discrete mKdV and unitary analogue of Toda) and Ablowitz-Ladik (discrete nonlinear Schrödinger) [2,3,22,30,32,52,54,63,64,65,73]. Yet, Darboux has not been applied to CMV matrices so far, the closest precedents being on related issues for isometric Hessenberg matrices [16,25,27,34,42,80].…”