Minors of a skew symmetric matrix: a combinatorial approach

zbMATH Open1452.15002arXiv2007.15118MaRDI QIDQ5124692FDOQ5124692

Authors: Lars Winther Christensen, Oana Veliche, Jerzy Weyman 

Publication date: 30 September 2020

Abstract: We use Knuth's combinatorial approach to Pfaffians to reprove and clarify a century-old formula, due to Brill. It expresses arbitrary minors of a skew symmetric matrix in terms of Pfaffians.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15118

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zbMATH Keywords

minorPfaffiancombinatorial approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Combinatorial aspects of matrices (incidence, Hadamard, etc.) (05B20) Matrix equations and identities (15A24)

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• Overlapping Pfaffians
• Pfaffian identities: A combinatorial approach
• Linkage classes of grade 3 perfect ideals

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