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Permanental Random Variables, M-Matrices and α-Permanents

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High Dimensional Probability VII

Part of the book series: Progress in Probability ((PRPR,volume 71))

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We explore some properties of a recent representation of permanental vectors which expresses them as sums of independent vectors with components that are independent gamma random variables.

Mathematics Subject Classification (2010). Primary 15B99, 60E07, 60J55; Secondary 60G17

Research of the second author was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, PSCCUNY and grant number 208494 from the Simons Foundation.

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Marcus, M.B., Rosen, J. (2016). Permanental Random Variables, M-Matrices and α-Permanents. In: Houdré, C., Mason, D., Reynaud-Bouret, P., Rosiński, J. (eds) High Dimensional Probability VII. Progress in Probability, vol 71. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40519-3_16

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