Timeline for Showing the positivity of the determinant of $\mathfrak{sp}(n)$ without making use of diagonalization
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| Feb 25, 2022 at 15:03 | history | edited | coudy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
correct spelling
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| Feb 25, 2021 at 17:05 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | Because some now-deleted answers were confused about this, might be worth recording that the matrices $M \in \mathfrak{sp}(n)$ are those which satisfy $\Omega M = -M^T\Omega$ where $\Omega$ is some fixed non-singular skew-symmetric matrix, e.g. $\Omega = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & I \\ -I & 0 \end{pmatrix}$. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 13:04 | history | edited | Chan Ki Fung | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 3 characters in body
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| Feb 25, 2021 at 12:07 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 11:20 | history | asked | Chan Ki Fung | CC BY-SA 4.0 |