Timeline for Geometric interpretation of characteristic polynomial
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| Jul 27, 2010 at 7:35 | vote | accept | Per Vognsen | ||
| Jul 27, 2010 at 7:34 | comment | added | Per Vognsen | That sounds good. In my comment to Pete, I briefly outlined something similar. To put what you said in those terms, it's measuring the differential contributions to the volume distortion from the various facets of the volume element: in the R^3 case, solids, faces, edges and vertices, in that order. The alternating signs come from inclusion-exclusion counting of overlapping contributions. | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 7:27 | history | edited | Ryan Budney | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 27, 2010 at 7:21 | history | answered | Ryan Budney | CC BY-SA 2.5 |