Minors of a skew symmetric matrix: a combinatorial approach

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Lars Christensen
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9360-123X
Oana Veliche
Jerzy Weyman

Abstract

Knuth's combinatorial approach to Pfaffians is used to reprove and clarify a century-old formula, due to Brill. It expresses arbitrary minors of a skew symmetric matrix in terms of Pfaffians.

 

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