A sign-reversing involution for an extension of Torelli's Pfaffian identity
Combinatorics
2014-08-28 v1
Abstract
We evaluate the hyperpfaffian of a skew-symmetric -ary polynomial of degree . The result is a product of the Vandermonde product and a certain expression involving the coefficients of the polynomial . The proof utilizes a sign reversing involution on a set of weighted, oriented partitions. When restricting to the classical case when and the polynomial is , we obtain an identity due to Torelli.
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@article{arxiv.1408.6405,
title = {A sign-reversing involution for an extension of Torelli's Pfaffian identity},
author = {Richard Ehrenborg and N. Bradley Fox},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6405},
year = {2014}
}
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8 pages, 1 figure