Generalizations of Cauchy's determinant and Schur's Pfaffian (Q2458954)

Computations of determinants and Pfaffians are of great importance not only in many branches of mathematics but also in physics. The authors present several identities of Cauchy-type determinants and Schur-type Pfaffians involving generalized Vandermonde determinants, which generalize Cauchy's determinant \(\text{det}(1/(x_i+y_j))\) and Schur's Pfaffian \(\text{Pf}((x_j- x_i)/(x_j+ x_i))\). Special cases of these identities have been given by \textit{S. Okada} [J. Algebra 205, No. 2, 337--367 (1998; Zbl 0915.20023)] and by \textit{T. Sundquist} [J. Algebr. Comb. 5, No. 2, 135--148 (1996; Zbl 0856.05094)]. The authors close with an application yielding a relation between Littlewood-Richardson coefficients.