Barrett-Johnson inequalities for totally nonnegative matrices
Combinatorics
2022-10-04 v3
Abstract
Given a matrix , let denote the submatrix of determined by rows and columns . Fischer's Inequalities state that for each Hermitian positive semidefinite matrix , and each subset of and its complement , we have . Barrett and Johnson (Linear Multilinear Algebra 34, 1993) extended these to state inequalities for sums of products of principal minors whose orders are given by nonincreasing integer sequences , summing to . Specifically, if for all , then where sums are over sequences of disjoint subsets of satisfying , . We show that these inequalities hold for totally nonnegative matrices as well.
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@article{arxiv.2209.06466,
title = {Barrett-Johnson inequalities for totally nonnegative matrices},
author = {Mark Skandera and Daniel Soskin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06466},
year = {2022}
}