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Chollet's permanent conjecture for $4\times 4$ matrices

Rings and Algebras 2022-11-08 v1

Abstract

In the year 1982, John Chollet conjectured that, for any pair of n×nn\times n positive semidefinite matrices A,BA,B, per(A)per(B)per(AB)per(A)\cdot per(B)\geq per(A\circ B), where ABA\circ B is the Hardamard product of AA and BB. This conjecture was proved to be valid for n=2,3n=2, 3 in the year 1987. In this paper, we show that the conjecture holds true for n=4n=4.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2211.02839,
  title  = {Chollet's permanent conjecture for $4\times 4$ matrices},
  author = {Kijti Rodtes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.02839},
  year   = {2022}
}
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