It's well-known that the eigenvalues of the Clement-Kac-Sylvester tridiagonal matrix $ \begin{pmatrix} 0 & n & 0 & ... & 0 \\\ 1 & 0 & n-1 & & ... \\\ 0 & 2 & 0 & ... & 0 \\\ ... & & ... & & 2 \\\ 0 & ... & 0 & n-1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$ are $\pm (n), \pm (n-2), ..., (\pm1 \; or \; 0)$. Please refer to <http://mathoverflow.net/questions/132186/regarding-a-paper-by-paul-a-clement-on-tridiagonal-matrices/132261#132261> and <http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/405670/regarding-a-paper-by-paul-a-clement-on-tridiagonal-matrices> for details. My question is do we know the eigenvalues of the leading principal submatrix of the Clement-Kac-Sylvester tridiagonal matrix $(r>2)$: $ \begin{pmatrix} 0 & n & 0 & ... & 0 \\\ 1 & 0 & n-1 & & ... \\\ 0 & 2 & 0 & ... & 0 \\\ ... & & ... & & r \\\ 0 & ... & 0 & n-r+1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$ or do we have any lower/upper bound on the eigenvalues of this submatrix.