Combinatorial Matrix Theory (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, Series Number 39)

Brualdi, Richard A.; Ryser, Herbert J.

ISBN 10: 0521322650 / ISBN 13: 9780521322652

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Combinatorial Matrix Theory (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, Series Number 39)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521322650
• ISBN 13: 9780521322652
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The book deals with the many connections between matrices, graphs, diagraphs and bipartite graphs. The basic theory of network flows is developed in order to obtain existence theorems for matrices with prescribed combinatorical properties and to obtain various matrix decomposition theorems. Other chapters cover the permanent of a matrix and Latin squares. The book ends by considering algebraic characterizations of combinatorical properties and the use of combinatorial arguments in proving classical algebraic theorems, including the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem and the Jorda Canonical Form.

Book Description

This book, first published in 1991, is devoted to the exposition of combinatorial matrix theory. This subject concerns itself with the use of matrix theory and linear algebra in proving results in combinatorics (and vice versa), and with the intrinsic properties of matrices viewed as arrays of numbers rather than algebraic objects in themselves.