We show that a best rank one approximation to a real symmetric tensor, which
in principle can be nonsymmetric, can be chosen symmetric.
Furthermore, a symmetric best rank one approximation to a symmetric tensor is
unique if the tensor does not lie on a certain real algebraic variety.
In this note we extend the necessary and sufficient conditions of
Boyle-Handleman 1991 and Kim-Ormes-Roush 2000 for a nonzero eigenvalue multiset
of primitive matrices over $\R_+$ and $\Z_+$, respectively, to irreducible
matrices.
In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions on a nonnegative
tensor to be diagonally equivalent to a tensor with prescribed slice sums. For
matrices these conditions reduce to Menon's conditions.