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Sarrus rules and dihedral groups

Combinatorics 2018-09-27 v2

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the analysis of a false generalization of the rule of Sarrus and its properties that can be derived with the help of dihedral groups. Further, we discuss a Sarrus-like scheme that could be helpful for students to memorize the calculation of a 4×44\times 4 determinant.

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@article{arxiv.1809.08948,
  title  = {Sarrus rules and dihedral groups},
  author = {Dirk A. Lorenz and Karl-Joachim Wirths},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08948},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

To appear in "The College Mathematics Journal"

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