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Re: Determinant problem

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  • Subject: [mg55070] Re: Determinant problem
  • From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kmccann at umbc.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:20:46 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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I believe the problem is that the result is a very complicated 
polynomial in all of the t's. Try Det[N[s1]; this seems to run rapidly.

Kevin

Nodar Shubitidze wrote:

> Hi All !
> 
> I have a problem with calculation of determinant of 24*24
> matrix:
> s1={{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1},
> {1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,-t1,-t1,-t1,-t1,-t1,-t1,-t1,-t1,-t1,-t1,-t1,-t1},
> {1,1,1,1,1,1,-t2,-t2,-t2,-t2,-t2,-t2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,-t3,-t3,-t3,-t3,-t3,-t3},
> {1,1,1,-t4,-t4,-t4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,-t5,-t5,-t5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,-t6,-t6,-t6,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,1,1,1,-t7,-t7,-t7},
> {1,1,-t8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,1,1,-t9,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,-t10,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,-t11,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,-t12,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,-t13,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,-t14,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,-t15},
> {1,-t16,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,1,-t17,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,1,-t18,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,-t19,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,-t20,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,-t21,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,-t22,0,0,0,0},
> {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,-t23,0}};
> s2=Det[s1];
> Mathematica 5.0 on my computer (AMD Atlon XP, 1.4GHz)
> cannot calculate it after 12 hours.
> It is strange, therefore I calculate more complicated (with
> less number of zeros) 68*68 matrix during the seconds.
> Please help establish the reason.
> Best regards
>                                        Nodar Shubitidze
> 


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