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Monday, October 4, 2004 - 4:00pm

Herb Wilf

University of Pennsylvania

Location

Temple University

Wachman Hall, room 617

Coffee, tea, fruits, and cookies are served 2-5 pm.

R. Redheffer described an n by n matrix of 0's and 1's the size of whose determinant is connected to the Riemann Hypothesis. We describe the permutations that contribute to its determinant and evaluate its permanent in terms of integer factorizations. We generalize the Redheffer matrix to finite posets that have a zero element and find the analogous results in the more general situation.