The purpose of this paper is to show that ideas and techniques of the
homotopy continuation method can be used to find the complete set of
eigenpairs of a symmetric matrix. The homotopy defined by Chow, Mallet-
Paret and York [I] may be used to solve this problem with 2""-n curves
diverging to infinity which for large n causes a great inefficiency. M. Chu 121
introduced a homotopy equation...