compound matrix
Suppose that is an matrix with entries from a field and. The compound matrix or of is thematrix whose entries are , and , arranged in lexicographic order and we use submatrix notation.The notation for this matrix is .
Properties
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when is less than or equal to the number of rows or columns of and
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If is nonsingular, the .
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If has complex entries, then .
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For any
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(Sylvester — Franke theorem
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