Permanent versus determinant over a finite field (Q378689)

Given a finite field \(\mathbb{F}\) of characteristic different from 2, the set \({\mathcal{H}_n}(\mathbb{F})\) of Hermitian matrices of order \(n\) and the whole matrix space \({M_n}(\mathbb{F})\) of order \(n\) then it is shown that, unlike in the case \(n\) = 2, for \(n\) = 3, there is no pair of maps \((\Phi ,\varphi )\) such that \({\text{per}}A = \det \Phi (A)\) for all matrices \(A\) from the spaces \({\mathcal{H}_n}(\mathbb{F})\) and \({M_n}(\mathbb{F})\), respectively, where \(\Phi\) is an arbitrary bijective map on matrices and \(\varphi :\mathbb{F} \to \mathbb{F}\) is an arbitrary map. In the same time, for \(n > 3\) and \({M_n}(\mathbb{F})\), such a pair of maps does not exist if \(\mathbb{F}\) contains sufficiently many elements (depending on \(n\)). The obtained results are illustrated by four examples.