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Pfaffian representation of the Fermat quintic
It is known (see for instance Beauville - Determinantal hypersurfaces) that a generic homogeneous polynomial in $5$ variables of degree $5$ with complex coefficients can be written as the Pfaffian of ...
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Determinant is to Pfaffian as resultant is to what?
This is an irresponsible question: I do not have done any thinking on it, or even literature search.
I just became curious whether there is some modification of the notion of a common root of two ...
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Detailed modern references for basic properties of Pfaffians over commutative rings
Pfaffians are important to algebraic combinatorics, at least.
This is to propose the making of a 'wiki' list, more modern, precise and compressed than e.g. the relevant Wikipedia page (nothing against ...
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the pfaffian-adjugate and its counterparts for matrices odd size
Let $R$ be a commutative ring (zero characteristic). Take a skew-symmetric matrix $A\in Mat^{skew-sym}(n,R)$.
If $n$ is even, then $\det(A)=Pf^2(A)$ and there exists the "Pfaffian adjugate/adjoint" ...