A formula for the trace of symmetric powers of matrices
Abstract
We present a formula for the trace of any symmetric power of a n× n matrix (with coefficients in a field) in terms of the ordinary powers of the matrix, an arbitrarily chosen linear function which vanishes on the identity matrix, and n-2 polynomial functions defined recursively.
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