A counterexample to the Drury permanent conjecture

We offer a counterexample to a conjecture concerning the permanent of positive semidefinite matrices. The counterexample is a 4 × 4 complex correlation matrix.

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Main Author: Hutchinson George
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017-11-01
Series:Special Matrices
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/spma-2017-0022
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spelling doaj.art-c23cd27ca8374016b2cecacd93e5672b2022-12-21T18:22:45ZengDe GruyterSpecial Matrices2300-74512017-11-015130130210.1515/spma-2017-0022spma-2017-0022A counterexample to the Drury permanent conjectureHutchinson George0Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1 We offer a counterexample to a conjecture concerning the permanent of positive semidefinite matrices. The counterexample is a 4 × 4 complex correlation matrix.https://doi.org/10.1515/spma-2017-0022positive semidefinite matricesmatrix permanent15a1515b48
spellingShingle Hutchinson George
A counterexample to the Drury permanent conjecture
Special Matrices
positive semidefinite matrices
matrix permanent
15a15
15b48
title A counterexample to the Drury permanent conjecture
title_full A counterexample to the Drury permanent conjecture
title_fullStr A counterexample to the Drury permanent conjecture
title_full_unstemmed A counterexample to the Drury permanent conjecture
title_short A counterexample to the Drury permanent conjecture
title_sort counterexample to the drury permanent conjecture
topic positive semidefinite matrices
matrix permanent
15a15
15b48
url https://doi.org/10.1515/spma-2017-0022
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