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Advances in Mathematics

Volume 220, Issue 3, 15 February 2009, Pages 657-669
Advances in Mathematics

On the permanent of random Bernoulli matrices

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Abstract

We show that the permanent of an n×n matrix with iid Bernoulli entries ±1 is of magnitude n(12+o(1))n with probability 1o(1). In particular, it is almost surely non-zero.

MSC

05D40
15A15
15A52

Keywords

Random matrices
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Supported by NSF grant CCF-0649473 and a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.

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Supported by NSF Career grant 0635606.