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Classes of Positive Definite Unimodular Circulants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Morris Newman  and
Olga Taussky
Morris Newman
Affiliation:
National Bureau of Standards, Washington 25, D.C.
Olga Taussky
Affiliation:
National Bureau of Standards, Washington 25, D.C.
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All matrices considered here have rational integral elements. In particular some circulants of this nature are investigated. An n × n circulant is of the form

The following result concerning positive definite unimodular circulants was obtained recently (3 ; 4 ):

Let C be a unimodular n × n circulant and assume that C = AA' where A is an n × n matrix and A' its transpose. Then it follows that C = C1C1', where C1 is again a circulant.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 9 , 1957 , pp. 71 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1957

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