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A003433
Hadamard maximal determinant problem: largest determinant of (+1,-1)-matrix of order n.
(Formerly M1291)
12
1, 2, 4, 16, 48, 160, 576, 4096, 14336, 73728, 327680, 2985984, 14929920, 77635584, 418037760, 4294967296, 21474836480, 146028888064, 894426939392, 10240000000000, 59392000000000, 409600000000000
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
I added the entry for n=22 since this has been proved optimal by Chasiotis et al (reference in A003432). [Richard P. Brent, Aug 17 2021]
REFERENCES
Ed Hughes and Rob Pratt, New Features in SAS/OR 13.1, SAS Paper SAS256-2014.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
See A003432 for further references, links and formulas.
LINKS
Richard P. Brent and Judy-anne H. Osborn, On minors of maximal determinant matrices, arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.3819 [math.CO], 2012.
Thomas Decru, Tako Boris Fouotsa, Paul Frixons, Valerie Gilchrist, and Christophe Petit, Attacking trapdoors from matrix products, Cryptology ePrint Archive (2024) Paper 2024/1332.
Massimiliano Fasi and Gian Maria Negri Porzio, Determinants of Normalized Bohemian Upper Hessemberg Matrices, University of Manchester (England, 2019).
John Holbrook, Nathaniel Johnston, and Jean-Pierre Schoch, Real Schur norms and Hadamard matrices, arXiv:2206.02863 [math.CO], 2022.
William P. Orrick and B. Solomon, Large-determinant sign matrices of order 4k+1, Discr. Math. 307 (2007), 226-236.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, -11-Matrix
FORMULA
a(n) = 2^(n-1)*A003432(n-1). E.g., a(6) = 32*A003432(5) = 32*5 = 160.
a(n) <= n^(n/2).
MATHEMATICA
A003432 = Cases[Import["https://oeis.org/A003432/b003432.txt", "Table"], {_, _}][[All, 2]];
a[n_] := 2^(n-1) A003432[[n]];
a /@ Range[21] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jan 17 2020 *)
CROSSREFS
A003432 is the main entry for this sequence.
Cf. A051753.
Cf. A188895 (number of distinct matrices having this maximal determinant).
Sequence in context: A119000 A034917 A215724 * A153951 A248748 A350646
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,nice
EXTENSIONS
a(19)-a(21) added by William P. Orrick, Dec 20 2011
a(22) added by Richard P. Brent, Aug 16 2021
STATUS
approved