On determinants involving $(\frac{j+k}p)\pm(\frac{j-k}p)$
Number Theory
2025-04-02 v4
Abstract
Let be an odd prime. In this paper, we mainly evaluate determinants involving , where denotes the Legendre symbol. When , we determine the characteristic polynomials of the matrices and also establish the general identity \begin{align*} &\ \left|x+\left(\frac{j+k}p\right)+\left(\frac{j-k}p\right)+\left(\frac jp\right)y+\left(\frac kp\right)z+\left(\frac{jk}p\right)w\right|_{1\le j,k\le n} \\=&\ (-p)^{(p-5)/4}\left(\left(\frac{p-1}2\right)^2wx-\left(\frac{p-1}2y-1\right)\left(\frac{p-1}2z-1\right)\right). \end{align*}
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.08213,
title = {On determinants involving $(\frac{j+k}p)\pm(\frac{j-k}p)$},
author = {Deyi Chen and Zhi-Wei Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.08213},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
16 pages. Make Conjecture 1.1 stronger