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permanents -- ideal generated by square permanents of a matrix

Synopsis

Description

The permanent of a square matrix N has the Laplace transform similar to the Laplace transform of the determinant of N: but all signs are positive. Permanents are used in combinatorics and in probability. They are computationally difficult.
i1 : R = ZZ[a..f];
i2 : M = genericMatrix(R,a,2,3)

o2 = | a c e |
     | b d f |

             2      3
o2 : Matrix R  <-- R
i3 : permanents(2,M)

o3 = ideal (b*c + a*d, b*e + a*f, d*e + c*f)

o3 : Ideal of R

Caveat

See also

Ways to use permanents :

For the programmer

The object permanents is a method function.