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Pfaffian Formulas and Schur Q-Function Identities

Combinatorics 2021-02-08 v1

Abstract

We establish Pfaffian analogues of the Cauchy--Binet formula and the Ishikawa--Wakayama minor-summation formula. Each of these Pfaffian analogues expresses a sum of products of subpfaffians of two skew-symmetric matrices in terms of a single Pfaffian. By using these Pfaffian formulas we give new transparent proofs to several identities for Schur Q23 pa-functions.

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@article{arxiv.1706.01029,
  title  = {Pfaffian Formulas and Schur Q-Function Identities},
  author = {Soichi Okada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.01029},
  year   = {2021}
}

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23 pages

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