Let $S=\{x_1,\cdots ,x_n\}$ be a finite subset of a partially ordered set $P$. Let $f$ be an incidence function of $P$. Let $\left[f(x_i\wedge x_j)\right]$ denote the $n\times n$ matrix having $f$ evaluated at the meet $x_i\wedge x_j$ of $x_i$ and $x_j$ as its $i,j$-entry and $\left[f(x_i\vee x_j)\right]$ denote the $n\times n$ matrix having $f$ evaluated at the join $x_i\vee x_j$ of $x_i$ and $x_j$ as its $i,j$-entry. The set $S$ is said to be meet-closed if $x_i\wedge x_j\in S$ for all $1\le i,j\le n$. In this paper we get explicit combinatorial formulas for the determinants of matrices $\left[f(x_i\wedge x_j)\right]$ and $\left[f(x_i\vee x_j)\right]$ on any meet-closed set $S$. We also obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the matrices...

The aim of this paper is to study determinants of matrices related to the Pascal triangle.

In this paper, we introduce related comparability for exchange ideals. Let $I$ be an exchange ideal of a ring $R$. If $I$ satisfies related comparability, then for any regular matrix $A\in M_n\left(I\right)$, there exist left invertible $U_1,U_2\in M_n\left(R\right)$ and right invertible $V_1,V_2\in M_n\left(R\right)$ such that $U_1{V}_{1}A{U}_2{V}_2=diag(e_1,\cdots ,e_n)$ for idempotents $e_1,\cdots ,e_n\in I$.

The paper presents, mainly, two results: a new proof of the spectral properties of oscillatory matrices and a transversality theorem for diffeomorphisms of Rn with oscillatory jacobian at every point and such that NM(f(x) - f(y)) ≤ NM(x - y) for all elements x,y ∈ Rn, where NM(x) - 1 denotes the maximum number of sign changes in the components zi of z ∈ Rn, where all zi are non zero and z varies in a small neighborhood of x. An application to a semiimplicit discretization of the scalar heat equation...