{ "id": "0810.3864", "version": "v1", "published": "2008-10-21T15:42:15.000Z", "updated": "2008-10-21T15:42:15.000Z", "title": "A family of determinants associated with a square matrix", "authors": [ "Eugene Gutkin" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We associate with a matrix over an arbitrary field an infinite family of matrices whose sizes vary from one to infinity; their entries are traces of powers of the original matrix. We explicitly evaluate the determinants of matrices in our family. The work is motivated by applications to graph spectra.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2008-10-21T15:42:15.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "15A15", "05C50" ], "keywords": [ "square matrix", "determinants", "sizes vary", "graph spectra", "original matrix" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008arXiv0810.3864G" } } }