Asia Mathematika

An International Journal. ISSN: 2457-0834 (online)

Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2018, Pages: 49-51

Characteristic equation of a matrix via Bell polynomials

A. Zúñiga-Segundo1, J. López-Bonilla2 and S. Vidal-Beltrán2

1ESFM, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Edif. 9, Dpto. Física, Lindavista 07738, CDMX, México
2ESIME-Zacatenco, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Edif. 4, Col. Lindavista CP 07738 CDMX, México

Abstract

We show that the coefficients of the characteristic equation of any matrix A_nxn can be written in terms of the complete Bell polynomials.

Keywords

Bell polynomials, Characteristic equation

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