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    The enhanced principal rank characteristic sequence for skew-symmetric matrices
    (Elsevier, 2015-08-15) Fallat, Shaun; Olesky, Dale; van den Driessche, Pauline
    The enhanced principal rank characteristic sequence (epr-sequence) was originally defined for an n ×n real symmetric matrix or an n ×n Hermitian matrix. Such a sequence is defined to be l1l2···ln where lk is A,S, or N depending on whether all, some, or none of the matrix principal minors of order k are nonzero. Here we give a complete characterization of the attainable epr-sequences for real skew-symmetric matrices. With the constraint that lk=0 if k is odd, we show that nearly all epr-sequences are attainable by skew-symmetric matrices, which is in contrast to the case of real symmetric or Hermitian matrices for which many epr-sequences are forbidden. ©2015