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XXVI.—The Monomial Expansion of Determinantal Symmetric Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

A. C. Aitken
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, University of Edinburgh.

Extract

The quotient of alternants

the denominator being the difference-product of the arguments a, β, γ, …, is an important symmetric function, introduced into algebra by Jacobi in 1841.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1943

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References

* I am indebted to Professor H. W: Turnbull, to whom I communicated the theorem and its applications in 1930, for recalling it.