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A note on skew-symmetric determinants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Walter Ledermann
Walter Ledermann
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom
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Abstract

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A short proof, based on the Schur complement, is given of the classical result that the determinant of a skew-symmetric matrix of even order is the square of a polynomial in its coefficients.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 335 - 338
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1993

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