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On a conjecture of B. L. van der Waerden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Marvin Marcus
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Henryk Minc
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara

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Let Ωn be the set of all n-square doubly stochastic matrices, i.e. matrices with non-negative entries all of whose row sums and column sums are 1. If A = (aij) is an n-square matrix let per (A) denote the permanent of A, that is.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1967

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