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A203005 Array: row n shows the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of the n-th principal submatrix of A115255 (in square format); by antidiagonals. 2

%I #13 Oct 02 2017 09:59:05

%S 1,-1,1,-6,1,1,-15,47,-1,1,-40,270,-488,1,1,-165,1738,-5866,5829,-1,1,

%T -1074,15695,-80060,156495,-74674,1,1,-9039,181581,-1360515,4552003,

%U -5997165,997295,-1,1,-86700,2566036,-28081556

%N Array: row n shows the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of the n-th principal submatrix of A115255 (in square format); by antidiagonals.

%C Let p(n)=p(n,x) be the characteristic polynomial of the n-th principal submatrix. The zeros of p(n) are positive, and they interlace the zeros of p(n+1).

%H S.-G. Hwang, <a href="http://matrix.skku.ac.kr/Series-E/Monthly-E.pdf">Cauchy's interlace theorem for eigenvalues of Hermitian matrices</a>, American Mathematical Monthly 111 (2004) 157-159.

%H A. Mercer and P. Mercer, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S016117120000257X">Cauchy's interlace theorem and lower bounds for the spectral radius</a>, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences 23, no. 8 (2000) 563-566.

%e Top of the array:

%e 1...-1

%e 1...-6....1

%e 1...-15...47....-1

%e 1...-40...270...-488...1

%t f[k_] := Binomial[2 k - 2, k - 1];

%t U[n_] := NestList[Most[Prepend[#, 0]] &, #, Length[#] - 1] &[Table[f[k], {k, 1, n}]];

%t L[n_] := Transpose[U[n]];

%t F[n_] := CharacteristicPolynomial[L[n].U[n], x];

%t c[n_] := CoefficientList[F[n], x]

%t TableForm[Flatten[Table[F[n], {n, 1, 10}]]]

%t Table[c[n], {n, 1, 12}]

%t Flatten[%]

%t TableForm[Table[c[n], {n, 1, 10}]]

%Y Cf. A115255, A202605.

%K tabl,sign

%O 1,4

%A _Clark Kimberling_, Dec 27 2011

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