On the discriminant of real symmetric matrices

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 51, Issue 11-12, 1998, Pages 1387-1396

  Lax, Peter D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032332990     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0312(199811/12)51:11/12<1387::aid-cpa6>3.0.co;2-0     Document Type: Article

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