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[#R83] Each determinant splits into two order-10 factors

claim. Centrosymmetry reduces every order-20 determinant to the product of two exact order-10 determinants.

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Index rows and columns from 0. Let \(B_{ij}=t_{|i-j|}\) and \(H_{ij}=t_{19-i-j}\) for \(0\leq i,j<10\). Reverse the final ten basis vectors. This changes \(T\) by a permutation similarity and gives \[ \begin{pmatrix}B&H\\H&B\end{pmatrix}. \] The symmetric and skew-symmetric subspaces for the exchange matrix then give the block diagonal form \[ (B+H)\oplus(B-H). \] Consequently \[ \det T=\det(B+H)\det(B-H). \] This is the even-order specialization of the standard decomposition for symmetric centrosymmetric matrices. The displayed change of basis also proves the identity directly.

Supported evidence. Recorded scope: every zero-diagonal binary symmetric Toeplitz matrix of order 20.

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Verification source: doi.org ↗, A. Cantoni and P. Butler, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric centrosymmetric matrices, Linear Algebra and its Applications 13 (1976), 275-288, Theorem 2 and the even-order symmetric/skew-symmetric decomposition

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binary-symmetric-toeplitz-maxdet-20
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A. Cantoni and P. Butler, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric centrosymmetric matrices, Linear Algebra and its Applications 13 (1976), 275-288, Theorem 2 and the even-order symmetric/skew-symmetric decomposition
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TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-24
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R83
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bst20-claim-centrosymmetric-factorization
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