Decomposition formulas for Pfaffians

DOI10.1006/JABR.1994.1020MaRDI QIDQ1320183zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hema Srinivasan

Publication date 11 September 1994

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1994.1020

zbMATH Keywords

alternating matrixdecomposition formulasdeterminantLaplace expansionPfaffianskew symmetric matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57) Pfaffian systems (58A17)

Review text

The Pfaffian of an alternating matrix \(X\) is the square root of the determinant of \(X\). If \(I=(i_ 1,i_ 2,\dots,i_ p)\) is a sequence of strictly increasing positive integers nor exceeding the order of \(X\), then the \(p\times p\) submatrix of \(X\), \(X(I)\), consisting precisely of the rows and columns in \(I\), is alternating and its Pfaffian is denoted by \(Pf(I)\). The signed Pfaffian of the matrix obtained from X after deleting the rows and columns in \(I\) is denoted by \(X_ I\). If \(I\) has \(t\) elements then \(\sum_ JX_{I,J}Pf(I,J)\) summed over all sequences \(J\) of length \(t\) corresponds to the expansion of the determinant by \(t\) rows in \(I\). The results of this paper give decompositions of \(Pf(I,J)\) and \(\sum_ JX_{I,J}Pf(J,K)\) for any sequences \(I,J\), and \(K\). In particular the Pfaffian of any given matrix can be expressed in terms of Pfaffian of lower orders.

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• On the theory of Pfaffians based on exponential maps in exterior algebras
• Gröbner bases of ideals cogenerated by Pfaffians
• Minimal algebra resolutions for cyclic modules defined by Huneke-Ulrich ideals
• On block partial linearizations of the Pfaffian
• Solving linear systems via Pfaffians

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