A Spectral Characterization of Generalized Real Symmetric Centrosymmetric and Generalized Real Symmetric Skew-Centrosymmetric Matrices

Abstract

We show that the only real symmetric matrices whose spectrumis invariant modulo sign changes after either row or column reversal are the centrosymmetric matrices; moreover, we prove that the class of real symmetric centrosymmetric matrices can be completely characterized by this property. We also show that the only real symmetric matrices whose spectrum changes by multiplication by i after either row or column reversal are the skew-centrosymmetric matrices; here, too, we show that the class of real symmetric skew-centrosymmetric matrices can be completely characterized by this property of their eigenvalues. We prove both of these spectral characterizations as special cases of results for what we've called generalized centrosymmetric K-matrices and generalized skew-centrosymmetric K-matrices. Some results illustrating the application of the generalized centrosymmetric spectral characterization to other classes of real symmetric matrices are also given.