Compound matrix

In mathematics, the kth compound matrix (sometimes referred to as the kth multiplicative compound matrix) ,[1] of an matrix A is the matrix formed from the determinants of all submatrices of A, i.e., all minors, arranged with the submatrix index sets in lexicographic order. The following properties hold:


If is viewed as the matrix of an operator in a basis then the compound matrix is the matrix of the -th exterior power in the basis . In this formulation, the multiplicativity property is equivalent to the functoriality of the exterior power. [2]


References

  1. โ†‘ R.A. Horn and C.R. Johnson, Matrix Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 19โ€“20
  2. โ†‘ Joseph P.S. Kung, Gian-Carlo Rota, and Catherine H. Yan, Combinatorics: the Rota way, Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 306.

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