Hyperdeterminantal relations among symmetric principal minors

By Olga Holtz, Bernd Sturmfels. 2006

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Abstract The principal minors of a symmetric n × n -matrix form a vector of length 2 n . We characterize these vectors in terms of algebraic equations derived from the 2 × 2 × 2 -hyperdeterminant.

Subfields: Algebra and Number Theory, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Statistics and Probability

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