The reconstruction of an hermitian toeplitz matrix with prescribed eigenpairs

Abstract

This paper concerns the reconstruction of an hermitian Toeplitz matrix with prescribed eigenpairs. Based on the fact that every centrohermitian matrix can be reduced to a real matrix by a simple similarity transformation, the authors first consider the eigenstructure of hermitian Toeplitz matrices and then discuss a related reconstruction problem. The authors show that the dimension of the subspace of hermitian Toeplitz matrices with two given eigenvectors is at least two and independent of the size of the matrix, and the solution of the reconstruction problem of an hermitian Toeplitz matrix with two given eigenpairs is unique.