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Determinant of the oriented adjacency matrix of a tree
Let $(V,E)$ be a finite oriented directed graph, with vertices and edges ordered, and $M$ the $|V|\times |E|$ matrix with entries
$$ m_{ve} = \begin{cases} 1 &\text{if $e$ points at $v$}\\
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Can one do better than using general purpose determinant algorithms when using the Fisher-Kasteleyn-Temperley method for perfect matchings?
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(numerical.generalPfaffian) Is it proved anywhere that in general it is not easier0 to calculate the determinant (over $\mathbb{Q}$) of the skew-symmetric signed adjacency matrix defined ...