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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 kk-ary polynomial ff of degree k/2(n1)k/2 \cdot (n-1). The result is a product of the Vandermonde product and a certain expression involving the coefficients of the polynomial ff. The proof utilizes a sign reversing involution on a set of weighted, oriented partitions. When restricting to the classical case when k=2k=2 and the polynomial is (xjxi)n1(x_{j} - x_{i})^{n-1}, 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