Abstract
A square real matrix is sign-nonsingular if it is forced to be nonsingular by its pattern of zero, negative, and positive entries. We give structural characterizations of sign-nonsingular matrices, digraphs with no even length dicycles, and square nonnegative real matrices whose permanent and determinant are equal. The structural characterizations, which are topological in nature, imply polynomial algorithms.
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Nov 06, 2004
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11(1)
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William McCuaig (2004). Pólya's Permanent Problem. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.37236/1832
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