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A determinant of Sylvester resurfaced first in a paper by Kac in 1947, and again in a paper by Askey in 2005. Since then several authors have discussed related determinants. We evaluate two further extensions of Sylvester’s determinant.
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Johnson, W.P. Some tridiagonal determinants. Ramanujan J 61, 319–328 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-021-00461-4
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