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On the precise concentration of permanent of $\pm1$ matrices

Obtain $M\in\{-1,+1\}^{n\times n}$ by unbiased coin flipping. What is known about the distribution of permanent $\mathsf{Perm}(M)$? It seems to be bimodal. Given a function $g(n)$ what is the ...
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Interpretations and models of permanent

The standard interpretation of permanent of a $0/1$ matrix if considered as a biadjacency matrix of a bipartite graph is number of perfect matchings of the graph or if considered as a adjacency matrix ...