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Permutations, skew-symmetric forms and degeneracy

Define a skew-symmetric form $(\cdot,\cdot)$ on $\mathbb{R}^{2k}$ by $$(e_i,e_j) = \begin{cases} 1 &\text{if $i<j$},\\ -1 &\text{if $i>j$},\\ 0 & \text{if $i=j$.}\end{cases}$$ Given ...
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