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Abstract for 
Donald E. Knuth, 
Overlapping Pfaffians

A combinatorial construction proves an identity for the product
of the Pfaffian of a skew-symmetric matrix by the Pfaffian of one of its
submatrices. Several applications of this identity are followed by a brief
history of Pfaffians.





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