Smigoc's glue for universal realizability in the left half-plane

Abstract

A list of A list {\Lambda} of complex numbers is said to be realizable if it is the spectrum of a nonnegative matrix. {\Lambda} is said to be universally realizable (UR) if it is realizable for each possible Jordan canonical form allowed by {\Lambda}. In this paper, using companion matrices and applying a procedure by \v{S}migoc, is provides a sufficient condition for the universal realizability of left half-plane spectra. It is also shown how the effect of adding a negative real number to a not UR left half-plane list of complex numbers, makes the new list UR, and a family of left half-plane lists that are UR is characterized.