Inequalities involving immanants

Abstract We summarize the recent progress toward determining the ordering of the normalized immanants regarded as generalized matrix functions and restricted to the n × n positive semidefinite Hermitian matrices. Included are the most recent results of Heyfron and Pate. Moreover, we describe some of the techniques used.

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