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Linear algebra proofs in combinatorics?

Simple linear algebra methods are a surprisingly powerful tool to prove combinatorial results. Some examples of combinatorial theorems with linear algebra proofs are the (weak) perfect graph theorem, ...
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Maximum determinant of $\{0,1\}$-valued $n\times n$-matrices

What's the maximum determinant of $\{0,1\}$ matrices in $M(n,\mathbb{R})$? If there's no exact formula what are the nearest upper and lower bounds do you know?
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Bisymmetric Hadamard matrices

Definitions: An $n\times n$ Hadamard matrix is a matrix whose entries are either $1$ or $−1$ and whose rows are mutually orthogonal. A symmetric matrix is a square matrix that is equal to its own ...
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On the half-skew-centrosymmetric Hadamard matrices

Definition 1: A Hadamard matrix is an $n\times n$ matrix $H$ whose entries are either $1$ or $-1$ and whose rows are mutually orthogonal. Definition 2: A matrix $A$ is half-skew-centrosymmetric if ...
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About $CW(512,16^2)$

Definitions: A weighing matrix $W = W(n,k)$ with weight $k$ is a square matrix of order $n$ and entries $w_{ij}$ in $\{0, \pm 1\}$ such that $WW^T=kI$, where $I$ is the identity matrix. A circulant ...
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Ranks of higher incidence matrices of designs

In 1978 Doyen, Hubaut and Vandensavel proved that if $S$ is a Steiner triple system $S(2,3,v)$ then the $GF(2)$ rank of its incidence matrix $N$ is $$ Rk_{2}(N)=v-(d_{p}+1), $$ where $d_{p}$ is the ...
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Linear combinations of special matrices

I am a hobby computer scientist and I have a problem to which I am searching an efficient algorithm. Given an integer n, we want to combine some square input-matrices of size n in a way that is ...
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