TY - JOUR ID - Lindner2018 LB - Lindner2018 AU - Lindner, Marko TI - Circulant matrices: norm, powers, and positivity ST - Circulant matrices: norm, powers, and positivity JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2018 VL - 38 IS - 6 SP - 849 EP - 857 DO - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2018.38.6.849 UR - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2018.38.6.849 AB - In their recent paper "The spectral norm of a Horadam circulant matrix", Merikoski, Haukkanen, Mattila and Tossavainen study under which conditions the spectral norm of a general real circulant matrix \({\bf C}\) equals the modulus of its row/column sum. We improve on their sufficient condition until we have a necessary one. Our results connect the above problem to positivity of sufficiently high powers of the matrix \({\bf C^\top C}\). We then generalize the result to complex circulant matrices. KW - spectral norm KW - circulant matrix KW - eventually positive semigroups SN - 1232-9274 ER -