A simple proof of an identity concerning Pfaffians of skew symmetric matrices

DOI10.1006/aima.1995.1029zbMath0822.15010OpenAlexW2071268262MaRDI QIDQ1804663

Walter Wenzel, Andreas W. M. Dress

Publication date: 15 October 1995

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/aima.1995.1029

zbMATH Keywords

Pfaffianskew symmetric matricesGrassmann-Plücker identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrix equations and identities (15A24) Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

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