Simple bounds on the extreme eigenvalues of Toeplitz matrices

Simple bounds are presented on the extreme eigenvalues of n*n-dimensional Hermitian Toeplitz matrices. Such a matrix, say T/sub n/, is determined by its first row. The proposed bounds have low complexity O(n); furthermore, examples are presented for which the proposed bounds are tighter than the Slepian-Landau bounds at their best, i.e. when the extreme eigenvalues of the submatrix obtained by deleting the first row and first column of T/sub n/ are known exactly. The bounds are first presented on the extreme eigenvalues of Hermitian Toeplitz matrices: the corresponding bounds for real symmetric Toeplitz matrices follow as a special case. Then, these bounds are extended to Hermitian Toeplitz interval matrices.>