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In contrast to the determinant, which can be quickly calculated (e.g. by Gaussian elimination), computation of the permanent is provably difficult. Therefore a lot of research about permanents concerned bounds and approximation; the book by Minc [7] gives an excellent overview of the subject.
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (2018). Van der Waerden’s permanent conjecture. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8_24
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