Contents Volume 411 Special Issue on Determinants and the Legacy of Sir Thomas Muir Photo of Sir Thomas Muir W. Barrett, S. Hedayat, C. Krattenthaler and R. Loewy Preface P. Maritz Sir Thomas Muir, 1844-1934 C. Krattenthaler Advanced determinant calculus: A complement G.-C. Rota and J.A. Stein A problem of Cayley from 1857 and how he could have solved it . . D.W. Robinson The classical adjoint D. Coppersmith and A.J. Hoffman OE Serra W.P. Johnson Confluent g-extensions of some classical determinants........... R.B. Bapat Distance matrix and Laplacian of a tree with attached graphs. ... . A.N. Willson Jr. and H.J. Orchard An efficient resultant for determining reciprocal zeros in polynomials S. Humphries and C. Krattenthaler Trace identities from identities for determinants............... E. Briand On a matrix function interpolating between determinant and permanent A. Ash Non-vanishing of alternants M.C. Crabb and A.J.B. Potter Determinants and periodic solutions of delay equations.......... C.M. Ballantine, S.M. Frechette and J.B. Little Determinants associated to zeta matrices of posets............. G.-G. Yan, A.L.B. Yang and J.J. Zhou The zrank conjecture and restricted Cauchy matrices C.R. Johnson, S. Leichenauer, P. McNamara and R. Costas Principal minor sums of (A + 1B)” Author index to volume 411. . 390 CONTENTS his journal is part of ContentsDirect, the free alerting service which sends tables of e contents by e-mail for Elsevier books and journals. You can register for ContentsDirect online at: http://contentsdirect.elsevier.com Available online at www.sciencedirect.com science (Poinecr: LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS * Linear Algebra and its Applications 411 (2005) 390 www.elsevier.com/locate/laa Author index to volume 411 (2005) Ash, A., Non-vanishing of alternants 411 Krattenthaler, C., see Humphries, S. 411 (2005) 348 (2005) 328 Ballantine, C.M., S.M. Frechette and J.B. Lit- Leichenauer, S., see Johnson, C.R. 411 (2005) tle, Determinants associated to zeta matrices 386 of posets 411 (2005) 364 Little, J.B., see Ballantine, C.M. 411 (2005) Bapat, R.B., Distance matrix and Laplacian of 364 a tree with attached graphs 411 (2005) 295 Loewy, R., see Barrett, W. 411 (2005) | Barrett, W., S. Hedayat, C. Krattenthaler and R. Loewy, Preface 411 (2005) 1 Maritz, P., Sir Thomas Muir, 1844—1934 411 Briand, E., On a matrix function interpolating (2005) 3 between determinant and permanent 411 McNamara, P., see Johnson, C.R. 411 (2005) (2005) 343 386 Coppersmith, D. and A.J. Hoffman, On the singularity of matrices 411 (2005) 277 Orchard, H.J., see Willson Jr., A.N. 411 (2005 Costas, R., see Johnson, C.R. 411 (2005) 386 309 Crabb, M.C. and A.J.B. Potter, Determinants and periodic solutions of delay equations Potter, A.J.B., see Crabb, M.C. 411 (2005) 356 411 (2005) 356 Robinson, D.W., The classical adjoint 41 Frechette, S.M., see Ballantine, C.M. 411 (2005) 254 (2005) 364 Rota, G.-C. and J.A. Stein, A problem of Cay Hedayat, S., see Barrett, W. 411 (2005) 1 ley from 1857 and how he could have solved it 411 (2005) 167 Hoffman, A.J., see Coppersmith, D. 411 (2005) 277 Humphries, S. and C. Krattenthaler, Trace Stein, J.A., see Rota, G.-C. 411 (2005) 167 identities from identities for determinants 411 (2005) 328 Willson Jr., A.N. and H.J. Orchard, An effi cient resultant for determining reciproca Johnson, C.R., S. Leichenauer, P. McNamara zeros in polynomials 411 (2005) 309 and R. Costas, Principal minor sums of (A + tBy” 411 (2005) 386 Johnson, W.P., Confluent g-extensions of Yan, G.-G., A.L.B. Yang and J.J. Zhou, Th some classical determinants 411 (2005) 281 zrank conjecture and restricted Cauchy ma trices 411 (2005) 371 Krattenthaler, C., Advanced determinant cal- Yang, A.L.B., see Yan, G.-G. 411 (2005) 37 culus: A complement 411 (2005) 68 Krattenthaler, C., see Barrett, W. 411 (2005) 1 Zhou, J.J., see Yan, G.-G. 411 (2005) 371 Elsevier Inc. doi: 10.1016/S0024-3795(05)00479-9