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Quasideterminant
In mathematics, the quasideterminant is a replacement for the determinant for matrices with noncommutative entries. Example 2 × 2 quasideterminants are as follows: : \left, \begin a_ & a_ \\ a_ & a_ \end \_ = a_ - a_^a_ \qquad \left, \begin a_ & a_ \\ a_ & a_ \end \_ = a_ - a_^a_. In general, there are ''n''2 quasideterminants defined for an ''n'' × ''n'' matrix (one for each position in the matrix), but the presence of the inverted terms above should give the reader pause: they are not always defined, and even when they are defined, they do not reduce to determinants when the entries commute. Rather, : \left, A\_ = (-1)^ \frac , where A^ means delete the ''i''th row and ''j''th column from ''A''. The 2\times2 examples above were introduced between 1926 and 1928 by Richardson and Heyting, but they were marginalized at the time because they were not polynomials in the entries of A. These examples were redisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Determinant
In mathematics, the determinant is a scalar value that is a function of the entries of a square matrix. It characterizes some properties of the matrix and the linear map represented by the matrix. In particular, the determinant is nonzero if and only if the matrix is invertible and the linear map represented by the matrix is an isomorphism. The determinant of a product of matrices is the product of their determinants (the preceding property is a corollary of this one). The determinant of a matrix is denoted , , or . The determinant of a matrix is :\begin a & b\\c & d \end=ad-bc, and the determinant of a matrix is : \begin a & b & c \\ d & e & f \\ g & h & i \end= aei + bfg + cdh - ceg - bdi - afh. The determinant of a matrix can be defined in several equivalent ways. Leibniz formula expresses the determinant as a sum of signed products of matrix entries such that each summand is the product of different entries, and the number of these summands is n!, the factorial of (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacMahon Master Theorem
In mathematics, MacMahon's master theorem (MMT) is a result in enumerative combinatorics and linear algebra. It was discovered by Percy MacMahon and proved in his monograph ''Combinatory analysis'' (1916). It is often used to derive binomial identities, most notably Dixon's identity. Background In the monograph, MacMahon found so many applications of his result, he called it "a master theorem in the Theory of Permutations." He explained the title as follows: "a Master Theorem from the masterly and rapid fashion in which it deals with various questions otherwise troublesome to solve." The result was re-derived (with attribution) a number of times, most notably by I. J. Good who derived it from his multilinear generalization of the Lagrange inversion theorem. MMT was also popularized by Carlitz who found an exponential power series version. In 1962, Good found a short proof of Dixon's identity from MMT. In 1969, Cartier and Foata found a new proof of MMT by combining alg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Retakh
Vladimir Solomonovich Retakh (russian: Ретах Владимир Соломонович; 20 May 1948) is a Russian-American mathematician who made important contributions to Noncommutative algebra and combinatorics among other areas. Biography Retakh graduated in 1970 from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. Beginning as an undergraduate Retakh regularly attended lectures and seminars at the Moscow State University most notably the Gelfand seminars. He obtained his PhD in 1973 under the mentorship of Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov. He joined the Gelfand group in 1986. His first position was at the central Research Institute for Engineering Buildings and later obtained his first academic position at the Council for Cybernetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1989. While at the Council for Cybernetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1990, Retakh had started working with Gelfand on their new program on Noncommutative determinants. Prior to immigrating to the US in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berezinian
In mathematics and theoretical physics, the Berezinian or superdeterminant is a generalization of the determinant to the case of supermatrices. The name is for Felix Berezin. The Berezinian plays a role analogous to the determinant when considering coordinate changes for integration on a supermanifold. Definition The Berezinian is uniquely determined by two defining properties: *\operatorname(XY) = \operatorname(X)\operatorname(Y) *\operatorname(e^X) = e^\, where str(''X'') denotes the supertrace of ''X''. Unlike the classical determinant, the Berezinian is defined only for invertible supermatrices. The simplest case to consider is the Berezinian of a supermatrix with entries in a field ''K''. Such supermatrices represent linear transformations of a super vector space over ''K''. A particular even supermatrix is a block matrix of the form :X = \beginA & 0 \\ 0 & D\end Such a matrix is invertible if and only if both ''A'' and ''D'' are invertible matrices over ''K''. The Berezin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grassmannians
In mathematics, the Grassmannian is a space that parameterizes all -dimensional linear subspaces of the -dimensional vector space . For example, the Grassmannian is the space of lines through the origin in , so it is the same as the projective space of one dimension lower than . When is a real or complex vector space, Grassmannians are compact smooth manifolds. In general they have the structure of a smooth algebraic variety, of dimension k(n-k). The earliest work on a non-trivial Grassmannian is due to Julius Plücker, who studied the set of projective lines in projective 3-space, equivalent to and parameterized them by what are now called Plücker coordinates. Hermann Grassmann later introduced the concept in general. Notations for the Grassmannian vary between authors; notations include , , , or to denote the Grassmannian of -dimensional subspaces of an -dimensional vector space . Motivation By giving a collection of subspaces of some vector space a topological str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plücker Embedding
In mathematics, the Plücker map embeds the Grassmannian \mathbf(k,V), whose elements are ''k''-dimensional subspaces of an ''n''-dimensional vector space ''V'', in a projective space, thereby realizing it as an algebraic variety. More precisely, the Plücker map embeds \mathbf(k,V) into the projectivization \mathbf(\Lambda^k V) of the k-th exterior power of V. The image is algebraic, consisting of the intersection of a number of quadrics defined by the Plücker relations (see below). The Plücker embedding was first defined by Julius Plücker in the case k=2, n= 4 as a way of describing the lines in three-dimensional space (which, as projective lines in real projective space, correspond to two-dimensional subspaces of a four-dimensional vector space). The image of that embedding is the Klein quadric in RP5. Hermann Grassmann generalized Plücker's embedding to arbitrary ''k'' and ''n''. The homogeneous coordinates of the image of the Grassmannian \mathbf(k,V) under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Of Algebra
''Journal of Algebra'' (ISSN 0021-8693) is an international mathematical research journal in algebra. An imprint of Academic Press, it is published by Elsevier. ''Journal of Algebra'' was founded by Graham Higman, who was its editor from 1964 to 1984. From 1985 until 2000, Walter Feit served as its editor-in-chief. In 2004, ''Journal of Algebra'' announced (vol. 276, no. 1 and 2) the creation of a new section on computational algebra, with a separate editorial board. The first issue completely devoted to computational algebra was vol. 292, no. 1 (October 2005). The Editor-in-Chief of the ''Journal of Algebra'' is Michel Broué, Université Paris Diderot, and Gerhard Hiß, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen ( RWTH) is Editor of the computational algebra section. See also *Susan Montgomery M. Susan Montgomery (born 2 April 1943 in Lansing, MI) is a distinguished American mathematician whose current research interests concern noncommutative algebras: in parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communications In Mathematical Physics
''Communications in Mathematical Physics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer. The journal publishes papers in all fields of mathematical physics, but focuses particularly in analysis related to condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, and in operator algebras, quantum information and relativity. History Rudolf Haag conceived this journal with Res Jost, and Haag became the Founding Chief Editor. The first issue of ''Communications in Mathematical Physics'' appeared in 1965. Haag guided the journal for the next eight years. Then Klaus Hepp succeeded him for three years, followed by James Glimm, for another three years. Arthur Jaffe began as chief editor in 1979 and served for 21 years. Michael Aizenman became the fifth chief editor in the year 2000 and served in this role until 2012. The current editor-in-chief is Horng-Tzer Yau. Archives Articles from 1965 to 1997 are available in electronic form free of charge, via Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advances In Mathematics
''Advances in Mathematics'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on pure mathematics. It was established in 1961 by Gian-Carlo Rota. The journal publishes 18 issues each year, in three volumes. At the origin, the journal aimed at publishing articles addressed to a broader "mathematical community", and not only to mathematicians in the author's field. Herbert Busemann writes, in the preface of the first issue, "The need for expository articles addressing either all mathematicians or only those in somewhat related fields has long been felt, but little has been done outside of the USSR. The serial publication ''Advances in Mathematics'' was created in response to this demand." Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * |
Capelli's Identity
In mathematics, Capelli's identity, named after , is an analogue of the formula det(''AB'') = det(''A'') det(''B''), for certain matrices with noncommuting entries, related to the representation theory of the Lie algebra \mathfrak_n. It can be used to relate an invariant ''ƒ'' to the invariant Ω''ƒ'', where Ω is Cayley's Ω process. Statement Suppose that ''x''''ij'' for ''i'',''j'' = 1,...,''n'' are commuting variables. Write ''E''ij for the polarization operator :E_ = \sum_^n x_\frac. The Capelli identity states that the following differential operators, expressed as determinants, are equal: : \begin E_+n-1 & \cdots &E_& E_ \\ \vdots& \ddots & \vdots&\vdots\\ E_ & \cdots & E_+1&E_ \\ E_ & \cdots & E_& E_ +0\end = \begin x_ & \cdots & x_ \\ \vdots& \ddots & \vdots\\ x_ & \cdots & x_ \end \begin \frac & \cdots &\frac \\ \vdots& \ddots & \vdots\\ \frac & \cdots &\frac \end. Both sides are differential operators. The determinant on the left has non-com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moore Determinant Over A Division Algebra
In mathematics, the Moore determinant is a determinant defined for Hermitian matrices over a quaternion algebra In mathematics, a quaternion algebra over a field ''F'' is a central simple algebra ''A'' over ''F''See Milies & Sehgal, An introduction to group rings, exercise 17, chapter 2. that has dimension 4 over ''F''. Every quaternion algebra becomes a ma ..., introduced by . See also * Dieudonné determinant References * Matrices {{matrix-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quantum Group
In mathematics and theoretical physics, the term quantum group denotes one of a few different kinds of noncommutative algebras with additional structure. These include Drinfeld–Jimbo type quantum groups (which are quasitriangular Hopf algebras), compact matrix quantum groups (which are structures on unital separable C*-algebras), and bicrossproduct quantum groups. Despite their name, they do not themselves have a natural group structure, though they are in some sense 'close' to a group. The term "quantum group" first appeared in the theory of quantum integrable systems, which was then formalized by Vladimir Drinfeld and Michio Jimbo as a particular class of Hopf algebra. The same term is also used for other Hopf algebras that deform or are close to classical Lie groups or Lie algebras, such as a "bicrossproduct" class of quantum groups introduced by Shahn Majid a little after the work of Drinfeld and Jimbo. In Drinfeld's approach, quantum groups arise as Hopf algebras depe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
