Saturday, 12 July 2014

linear algebra - Finding the closed of form of the determinant of the Hilbert matrix

In my studies of matrix theory I came across the famous Hilbert matrix, which is a square $ n \times n $ matrix $ H $ with entries given by: $ h_{ij} = \frac{1}{i+j-1} $ and this is an example of a Cauchy matrix, which is a matrix $ C_n $ of the form $ c_{ij} = \frac{1}{x_i+y_j} $ and for this matrix there is the well known formula for the determinant:



$ det(C) = \dfrac {\displaystyle \prod_{1 \mathop \le i \mathop < j \mathop \le n} \left({x_j - x_i}\right) \left({y_j - y_i}\right)} {\displaystyle \prod_{1 \mathop \le i, \, j \mathop \le n} \left({x_i + y_j}\right)} $



Now I think I can substitute the sequences for the Hilbert matrix but I cannot see how to get the closed form they got here (under Properties):



$ det(H) = \frac{c_n^4}{c_{2n}} $ where $ c_n = \prod_{i=1}^{n-1} i^{n-1} =\prod_{i=1}^{n-1} i! $




and I was hoping someone would please help me obtain the closed form. Thanks.

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