Twisted immanant and matrices with anticommuting entries

This article gives a new matrix function named "twisted immanant," which can be regarded as an analogue of the immanant. This is defined for each self-conjugate partition through a "twisted" analogue of the irreducible character of the symmetric group. This twisted immanant has some interesting properties. For example, it satisfies Cauchy-Binet type formulas. Moreover it is closely related to the following results for matrices whose entries anticommute with each other: (i) the description of the invariants under the conjugations, and (ii) an analogue of the Cauchy identities for symmetric polynomials.Comment: 15 pages; revised version; to appear in Linear Multilinear Algebr

Trions in 1+1 dimensions

We consider an Abelian BF-Higgs theory with Nf=2 Higgs fields in 1+1 dimensions. We derive a new BPS-like bound and find topological solitons with tri-charges (topological charge, Q-charge and electric charge). We call them "trions."Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, a reference added, minor change