Communications of the
Korean Mathematical Society CKMS

In this article, an alternating Fibonacci sequence is defined from a second-order linear homogeneous recurrence relation with constant coefficients. Then, the determinant, inverse, and eigenvalues of the circulant matrices with entries in the first row having the formation of the sequence are formulated explicitly in a simple way. In this study, the method for deriving the formulation of the determinant and inverse is simply using traditional elementary row or column operations. For the eigenvalues, the known formulation from the case of general circulant matrices is simplified by considering the specialty of the sequence and using cyclic group properties. We also propose algorithms for the formulation to show how efficient the computations are.

Keywords: Circulant matrix, eigenvalues, determinant, inverse

MSC numbers: Primary 15B05; Secondary 15A09, 15A15, 15A18