A Sylvester-Kac matrix type and the Laplacian controllability of half graphs

M. Anđelić, C.M. da Fonseca, E. Kılıç, Z. Stanic (2022) New strong divisibility sequences, Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra, Vol. 38, pp. 559-571, 10.13001/ela.2022.6947

Abstract. In this paper, we provide a new family of tridiagonal matrices whose eigenvalues are perfect squares. This result motivates the computation of the spectrum of a particular antibidiagonal matrix. As an application, we consider the Laplacian controllability of a particular subclass of chain graphs known as half graphs.