nLab superdeterminant

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Context

Super-Algebra and Super-Geometry

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Idea

The notion of super determinant or Berezinian is the generalization of the notion of determinant of a matrix from algebra to super algebra.

References

Originally due to Felix Berezin. The first publication explaining the Berezin’s determinant is the article of Berezin’s student V. F. Pakhomov, Automorphisms of the tensor product of Abelian and Grassmannian algebras, Mathematical Notes 1974, 16:1, 624–629 mathnet.ru.

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