Given a sequence of real or complex numbers, we construct a sequence of nested, symmetric matrices. We determine the - and -factorizations, the determinant and the principal minors for such a matrix. When the sequence is real, positive and strictly increasing, the matrices are strictly positive, inverse -matrices with symmetric, irreducible, tridiagonal inverses.
Let , and be fixed complex numbers. Let be the Toeplitz matrix all of whose entries above the diagonal are , all of whose entries below the diagonal are , and all of whose entries on the diagonal are . For , each principal minor of has the same value. We find explicit and recursive formulae for the principal minors and the characteristic polynomial of . We also show that all complex polynomials in are Toeplitz matrices. In particular, the inverse of is a Toeplitz matrix when...