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V.—A Development of a Pfaffian having a Vacant Minor
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2012
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(1) The simplest possible case of the development referred to in the title is one which is seen to follow instantly from the determinant definition of a Pfaffian. Thus, by the said definition,
and therefore
the result reached being that a Pfaffian with certain zero elements is expressible as a determinant. It should be noted that, as in many instances where this form of definition is used, there is an ambiguity as to sign : it is of less importance to note that here the appropriate sign is –.
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- Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , 1905 , pp. 49 - 58
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