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An extension of the Minkowski determinant theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Marvin Marcus  and
William R. Gordon
Marvin Marcus
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
William R. Gordon
Affiliation:
University of Victoria, Victoria B. C.
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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.

Type
Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 1971 , pp. 321 - 324
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1971

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