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Ralph
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Non-zero diagonal through permutation of rows

I'm looking for a reference of the following statement (which can easily be proved by Laplace's formula and induction):

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity and let $A$ be an invertible matrix over $R$. Then there is a permutation matrix $P$ such that the diagonal of $PA$ has no zero.

Ralph
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