HMMT 二月 2016 · 冲刺赛 · 第 35 题
HMMT February 2016 — Guts Round — Problem 35
题目详情
- [ 20 ] (Maximal Determinant) In a 17 × 17 matrix M , all entries are ± 1. The maximum possible value of | det M | is N . Estimate N . ⌊ ⌋ 2 An estimate of E > 0 earns 20 min( N/E, E/N ) points.
解析
- [ 20 ] (Maximal Determinant) In a 17 × 17 matrix M , all entries are ± 1. The maximum possible value of | det M | is N . Estimate N . ⌊ ⌋ 2 An estimate of E > 0 earns 20 min( N/E, E/N ) points. Proposed by: Evan Chen 16 Answer: 327680 · 2 1 n 2 This is Hadamard’s maximal determinant problem. There’s an upper bound of n which empirically seems to give reasonably good estimates, but in fact this is open for general n .