期刊名称：Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity
印刷版ISSN：1433-8092
出版年度：1997
卷号：1997
出版社：Universität Trier, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Computer-Forschung
摘要：We prove a new combinatorial characterization of the
determinant. The characterization yields a simple
combinatorial algorithm for computing the
determinant. Hitherto, all (known) algorithms for
determinant have been based on linear algebra. Our
combinatorial algorithm requires no division and works over
arbitrary commutative rings. It also lends itself to
efficient parallel implementations.
It has been known for some time now that the complexity
class GapL characterizes the complexity of computing the
determinant of matrices over the integers. We present a
direct proof of this characterization.
