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Compounds of Skew-Symmetric Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Marvin Marcus  and
Adil Yaqub
Marvin Marcus
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
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In a recent interesting paper (3) H. Schwerdtfeger answered a question of W. R. Utz (4) on the structure of the real solutions A of A* = B, where A is skew-symmetric. (Utz and Schwerdtfeger call A* the "adjugate" of A ; A* is the n-square matrix whose (i, j) entry is (—1)i+j times the determinant of the (n — 1)-square matrix obtained by deleting row i and column j of A. The word "adjugate," however, is more usually applied to the matrix (AT)*, where AT denotes the transposed matrix of A ; cf. (1, 2).)

The object of the present paper is to find all real n-square skew-symmetric solutions A to the equation

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 16 , 1964 , pp. 473 - 478
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1964

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