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A family of determinants associated with a square matrix

Combinatorics 2008-10-23 v1

Abstract

We associate with a matrix over an arbitrary field an infinite family of matrices whose sizes vary from one to infinity; their entries are traces of powers of the original matrix. We explicitly evaluate the determinants of matrices in our family. The work is motivated by applications to graph spectra.

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@article{arxiv.0810.3864,
  title  = {A family of determinants associated with a square matrix},
  author = {Eugene Gutkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3864},
  year   = {2008}
}
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