Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Education
Invertibility Of Submatrices Of The Pascal Matrix And Birkhoff Interpolation, Scott N. Kersey
Invertibility Of Submatrices Of The Pascal Matrix And Birkhoff Interpolation, Scott N. Kersey
Department of Mathematical Sciences Faculty Publications
The infinite upper triangular Pascal matrix is T = [( j )i] for 0 ≤ i, j. It is easy to see that any leading principle square submatrix is triangular with determinant 1, hence invertible. In this paper, we investigate the invertibility of arbitrary square submatrices Tr, c comprised of rows r = [r0, … , rm ] and columns c = c0 , … , cm[] of T. We show that Tr, c is invertible r ≤ c i.e., ri ≤ ci for i = 0, …, m(), or equivalently, iff all diagonal entries are nonzero. To prove this …