On the permanent of Sylvester-Hadamard matrices
Abstract
We prove a conjecture due to Wanless about the permanent of Hadamard matrices in the particular case of Sylvester-Hadamard matrices. Namely we show that for all n greater or equal to 2, the dyadic valuation of the permanent of the Sylvester-Hadamard matrix of order n is equal to the dyadic valuation of n!. As a consequence, the permanent of the Sylvester-Hadamard matrix of order n doesn't vanish for n greater or equal to 2.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2018
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- arXiv:
- arXiv:1802.08001
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv180208001C
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Combinatorics
- E-Print:
- 2 pages