Minors of a skew symmetric matrix: a combinatorial approach

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Authors Lars Winther Christensen, Oana Veliche, Jerzy Weyman

Publication date 30 September 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15118, https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/ela/article/view/5433

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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)

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.

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