Rotundus: triangulations, Chebyshev polynomials, and Pfaffians

DOI10.1007/S00283-017-9753-7MaRDI QIDQ1622641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Charles H. Conley, Valentin Ovsienko

Publication date 19 November 2018

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09106

zbMATH Keywords

triangulationChebyshev polynomialPfaffiancontinuantrotundus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Solving polynomial systems; resultants (13P15)

Abstract: We introduce and study a cyclically invariant polynomial which is an analog of the classical tridiagonal determinant usually called the continuant. We prove that this polynomial can be calculated as the Pfaffian of a skew-symmetric matrix. We consider the corresponding Diophantine equation and prove an analog of a famous result due to Conway and Coxeter. We also observe that Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind arise as Pfaffians.

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