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The traces of quantum powers commute

M Domokos, T H Lenagan

math.QAarXiv:math/0302063

Abstract

The traces of the quantum powers of a generic quantum matrix pairwise commute. This was conjectured by Kaoru Ikeda, in connection with certain Hamiltonian systems. The proof involves Newton's formulae for quantum matrices, relating traces of quantum powers with sums of principal minors.

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