On the Expressive Power of Read-Once Determinants

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Abstract: We introduce and study the notion of read-k projections of the determinant: a polynomial finmathbbF[x1,ldots,xn] is called a {it read-k projection of determinant} if f=det(M), where entries of matrix M are either field elements or variables such that each variable appears at most k times in M. A monomial set S is said to be expressible as read-k projection of determinant if there is a read-k projection of determinant f such that the monomial set of f is equal to S. We obtain basic results relating read-k determinantal projections to the well-studied notion of determinantal complexity. We show that for sufficiently large n, the nimesn permanent polynomial Permn and the elementary symmetric polynomials of degree d on n variables Snd for 2leqdleqn2 are not expressible as read-once projection of determinant, whereas mon(Permn) and mon(Snd) are expressible as read-once projections of determinant. We also give examples of monomial sets which are not expressible as read-once projections of determinant.









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