Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society

Volume 28, Issue 2, June 2013 pp. 173–178.

On the genesis of a determinantal identity

Authors: Vijay Kodiyalam
Author institution: The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

Summary: We show how to derive a 3 x 3 determinantal identity in 12 indeterminates that gives an explicit version of a result of Mohan Kumar and Pavaman Murthy on completing unimodular rows.

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