Nuij Type Pencils of Hyperbolic Polynomials

Nuij's theorem states that if a polynomial $p\in \mathbb{R}[z]$ is hyperbolic (i.e., has only real roots), then $p+s{{p}^{'}}$ is also hyperbolic for any $s\in \mathbb{R}$ . We study other perturbations of hyperbolic polynomials of the form ${{p}_{a}}(z,s)\,\,:=\,\,\,p\,(z)+\,\sum\nolimits_{k=1}^{d}{{{a}_{k}}{{s}^{k}}{{p}^{(k)}}(z)}$ . We give a full characterization of those $a=({{a}_{1}},...,{{a}_{d}})\,\in \,{{\mathbb{R}}^{d}}$ for which ${{p}_{a}}(z,s)$ is a pencil of hyperbolic polynomials. We also give a full characterization of those $a=({{a}_{1}},...,{{a}_{d}})\,\in \,{{\mathbb{R}}^{d}}$ for which the associated families $ $ admit universal determinantal representations. In fact, we show that all these sequences come fromspecial symmetric Toeplitz matrices.