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Computation of the pfaffian of a particular matrix
This question was originally asked in (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4265063/computation-of-the-pfaffian-of-a-particular-matrix). I did not find any satisfactory answer there. So I am ...
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Pfaffian generalization
The identity
$$\left|
\begin{array}{cccc}
x & y_1 & y_2 & y_3 \\
z_1 & 0 & a & b \\
z_2 & -a & 0 & c \\
z_3 & -b & -c & 0 \\
\end{array}
\right|=\...
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Pfaffian equals complex determinant?
Let $V$ be a Euclidean vector space and let $V^{\mathbb{C}} = V \oplus V$ be its complexification, with complex structure
$$J = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & -\mathrm{id}\\ \mathrm{id} & 0 \end{pmatrix}....