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A Note on the van Der Waerden Permanent Conjecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jacques Dubois*
Affiliation:
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec
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The permanent of an n-square complex matrix P = (pij) is defined by

where the summation extends over Sn, the symmetric group of degree n. This matrix function has considerable significance in certain combinatorial problems [6; 7]. The properties and many related problems about the permanent are presented in [3] along with an extensive bibliography.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

References

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