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A question on symmetric matrices

$\newcommand{\R}{\mathbb{R}}$ The question is Is there a constructive (say, parametric) description of the set (say $M_n$) of all symmetric matrices $A\in\R^{n\times n}$ such that all the diagonal ...
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An inequality for certain positive-semidefinite matrices

Suppose that $G=(G_{ij})$ is a positive-semidefinite symmetric matrix with the diagonal entries all equal $1$ and all off-diagonal entries $\le0$. Does it then necessarily follow that $$\sum_{i,j}(G^5)...
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Symmetric orthogonal matrices with constant diagonal entries

$\newcommand{\al}{\alpha} \newcommand{\be}{\beta} \newcommand{\de}{\delta} \newcommand{\De}{\Delta} \newcommand{\ep}{\varepsilon} \newcommand{\ga}{\gamma} \newcommand{\Ga}{\Gamma} \newcommand{\la}{\...
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