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Permanents of Random Doubly Stochastic Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

R. C. Griffiths
R. C. Griffiths*
Affiliation:
Macquarie University, N.S.W., Australia; Monash University, Clayton, 3168, Australia
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The permanent of an n × n matrix A = (aij) is defined as

where Sn is the symmetric group of order n. For a survey article on permanents the reader is referred to [2]. An unresolved conjecture due to van der Waerden states that if A is an n × n doubly stochastic matrix; then per (A) ≧ n!/nn, with equality if and only if A = Jn = (1/n).

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 1974 , pp. 600 - 607
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

References

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