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A tridiagonal matrix is a band matrix that has nonzero elements only on the main diagonal, the first diagonal below this, and the first diagonal above the main diagonal.

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Eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a tridiagonal Toeplitz matrix

Another way to look at this problem, from the ground up, is to expand the characteristic polynomial of your first matrix, $\mathcal{T}_n(p,q)$, along the last row and then along the last column, from …
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