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An extension of the Minkowski determinant theorem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
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Minkowski proved the following (for a proof see (4)): if A and B are n × n positive semi-definite hermitian matrices then
It is known (4) that if both A and B are non-singular, then the equality holds in (1) if and only if B = cA where c is a positive number.
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- Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 1971 , pp. 321 - 324
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- Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1971
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