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The paper shows the 3×3 determinant has product rank 5 and the 3×3 permanent has product rank 4, which gives the same values as their tensor ranks.
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“We show that the product rank of the $3\times 3$ determinant is $5$, and the product rank of the $3\times 3$ permanent is $4$. As a corollary, we obtain that the tensor ranks of the $3 \times 3$ determinant and permanent are $5$ and $4$, respectively.”
From Ilten and Zach (2015), Ilten and Teitler (2016), "Product Ranks of the 3 × 3 Determinant and Permanent", Canadian Mathematical Bulletin 59(2), 311–319 (doi:10.4153/CMB-2015-076-1); arXiv:1503.00822v2, arXiv 1503.00822. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 14 Oct 2026.
product rank:
The smallest number of terms needed to write a polynomial as a sum of products of linear expressions (each term being a product of linear forms).
tensor rank:
The smallest number of simple, single-product pieces (rank-one tensors) that add up to a given tensor, a multi-dimensional array of numbers.
permanent:
A formula like the determinant, computed from a square grid of numbers, but with every term added and none subtracted.
The paper determines the product rank and tensor rank of the 3×3 determinant and permanent, and shows the border product rank of the n×n permanent exceeds n for every n of at least 3.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 14 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The determinant and the permanent are two similar-looking formulas built from the entries of a square grid of numbers. Product rank and tensor rank measure the fewest simple pieces needed to write them as a sum. Exact values for the 3×3 case give a concrete benchmark for how complex each polynomial is, and show that the permanent needs fewer pieces than the determinant at this size. Such counts matter in the study of how hard these polynomials are to compute.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 14 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
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What the authors did
The authors prove mathematical results about the 3×3 determinant and permanent, treated as polynomials and as tensors. The abstract does not describe their methods in more detail.
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What they found
The product rank of the 3×3 determinant is 5.
The product rank of the 3×3 permanent is 4.
As a corollary, the tensor ranks of the 3×3 determinant and permanent are 5 and 4 respectively; the border product rank of the n×n permanent is also shown to exceed n for any n of at least 3.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"We show that the product rank of the $3\times 3$ determinant is $5$, and the product rank of the $3\times 3$ permanent is $4$. As a corollary, we obtain that the tensor ranks of the $3 \times 3$ determinant and permanent are $5$ and $4$, respectively."
(Ilten et al., arXiv (Cornell University), 2015)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The paper shows the 3×3 determinant has product rank 5 and the 3×3 permanent has product rank 4, which gives the same values as their tensor ranks.
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Refuted if the identities the paper's source prints (Glynn's, Perm3 as a sum of 4 products of linear forms; Derksen's, Det3 as half a sum of 5) do not expand exactly to the 3 × 3 permanent and determinant, each factor a linear form in one row's variables, so that pr and tr ≤ 4 and ≤ 5 fail; or if the Koszul flattening T_A^∧1 (A ⊗ B* → Λ²A ⊗ C) of the tensors in C³ ⊗ C³ ⊗ C³ they define has rank below 9 for Det3 or below 7 for Perm3, so that border rank, hence tensor rank, is not certified ≥ 5 and ≥ 4.
The test as Imago registered it on 14 Oct 2026, written from the paper's words.
It adapts the paper's method: “Adapted: the upper bounds by the paper's own identities, exactly; the corollary's lower bounds (tr(Det3) ≥ 5, tr(Perm3) ≥ 4) by Koszul flattenings, which the paper does not use; the product-rank lower bounds, proved through Fano schemes and a Macaulay2 computation, are not tested”. A test of this registration is, measured against the paper, a reanalysis.
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General, by construction: “The two identities printed in the paper's introduction (Glynn's for Perm3, Derksen's for Det3), taken as polynomial identities over the rationals, and the 3 × 3 × 3 tensors of Perm3 and Det3, multihomogeneous in the matrix's rows, as the paper identifies them”.
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Imago (2026). Registration of a claim from Nathan Ilten and Teitler, Zach (2015), Product Ranks of the $3\times 3$ Determinant and Permanent, arXiv (Cornell University). Ecdysis, claim ext:bd8023834bf6d740. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:bd8023834bf6d740
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