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In Chapter 24 we discussed Van der Waerden’s conjecture, which established a lower bound for the permanent of a doubly stochastic matrix. There is also a wonderful theorem that gives an upper bound for integral matrices with prescribed row sums.
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (2018). Permanents and the power of entropy. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8_37
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