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A Lower Bound for the Permanent on a Special Class of Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. J. Hartfiel*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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Abstract

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Let Un(f) denote the class of all n × n (0, 1)-matrices with precisely r-ones, r≥3, in each row and column. Then

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

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