Deformed Fourier matrices in bistochastic form

Abstract: Many interesting examples of complex Hadamard matrices $H\in M_N(\mathbb C)$ can be put, up to the standard equivalence relation for such matrices, in bistochastic form. We discuss here this phenomenon, with a number of computations for some of the most basic such matrices, namely the deformations of the Fourier matrix $F_N\in M_N(\mathbb C)$.