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Eulerian Graphs and Polynomial Identities for Skew-Symmetric Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Joan P. Hutchinson
Joan P. Hutchinson*
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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Let the standard identity of degree m be given by

Then we shall show that the set of all n X n skew-symmetric matrices over a field of characteristic 0 satisfies the standard identity of degree at least 2n — 2; specifically, we shall prove the following.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , 01 June 1975 , pp. 590 - 609
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

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