Berezinians, exterior powers and recurrent sequences

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Abstract: We study power expansions of the characteristic function of a linear operator A in a p|q-dimensional superspace V. We show that traces of exterior powers of A satisfy universal recurrence relations of period q. `Underlying' recurrence relations hold in the Grothendieck ring of representations of GL(V). They are expressed by vanishing of certain Hankel determinants of order q+1 in this ring, which generalizes the vanishing of sufficiently high exterior powers of an ordinary vector space. In particular, this allows to explicitly express the Berezinian of an operator as a rational function of traces. We analyze the Cayley--Hamilton identity in a superspace. Using the geometric meaning of the Berezinian we also give a simple formulation of the analog of Cramer's rule.












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