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  1. In mathematics, the coefficient of the product of the alternate units in the nth power of a linear function of the binary products of 2n alternate units. In effect, the pfaffian (ABCD) is (AB) (CD) + (AC) (DB) + (AD) (BC), the pfaffian (ABCDEF) is (AB) (CDEF) + (AC) (DEFB) + (AD) (EFBC) + (AE) (FBCD) + (AF) (BCDE), and so forth.
  2. Mixed pfaffians expressions similar to pfaffians, produced by taking the products of different linear functions, instead of a power of one.
  3. The order of a pfaffian half the number of alternate units used in generating the pfaffian.

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cavity_approach central_charge chaotic_cavities character_expansion characteristic_polynomials characters charlier_ops chazy_classes chiral_ginoe chiral_goe chiral_gse chiral_gue chiral_symmetry chiral_transport christoffel-darboux_formula circular_beta_ensembles circular_bus_model circular_law citations classical_dynamics classical_solutions_for_painleve classical_weight_functions climate_data coe color-flavour_transformation combinatorics communications_theory companion_matrix complex_networks condition_number conductance conductance_fluctuations conformal_field_theory connection_formulae continuous_approximation continuous_matrix_models correlation_functions correlation_matrix coset_spaces coulomb_blockade coupled_quartic_oscillators coupled_random_matrices critical_statistics cse cue cumulants delay_times delta-statistics determinantal_point_process determinantal_point_process_higher_dimensions determinants devisme_polynomials diagrammatic_expansions di_bruno_formula 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shot_noise sinai_billiard sine-gordon_equation sine_law single-ring_theorem skew_ops skew_ops_asymptotics skew_orthogonal_polynomials s-matrix_ensembles soft_edge soft_level_confinement solitaire_card_game soliton_theory spacing_distribution sparse_random_matrices spectra spectral_form-factor spectrum spectrum_edge spectrum_unfolding spin_chains spin_conductance stieltjes-wigert_ops stirling_numbers string_theory summary_for_nonexperts superbosonisation super_itzykson-zuber_integrals supersymmetry susy sylvester-identity symbolic_computation symmetric_polynomials symmetric_spaces symmetry_classes tangent_spaces tasep tau-function tau-function_theory_for_painleve_equations thouless_energy tight_binding_model tiling_problem time-dependent_rmt toda_lattice toeplitz_matrices topological_gravity tracy-widom_distribution tracy-widom_trick transfer-matrix_ensembles transfer_matrix_formalism transition_probability_matrix truncated_un_matrices turanians tutorial two_band_matrices 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cauchy_matrix_model cauchy_transformed_ops cavity_approach central_charge chaotic_cavities character_expansion characteristic_polynomials characters charlier_ops chazy_classes chiral_ginoe chiral_goe chiral_gse chiral_gue chiral_potts_model chiral_symmetry chiral_transport christoffel-darboux_formula circular_beta_ensembles circular_bus_model circular_law citations classical_dynamics classical_solutions_for_painleve classical_weight_functions climate_data coe color-flavour_transformation combinatorics communications_theory companion_matrix complex_networks condition_number conductance conductance_fluctuations conformal_field_theory connection_formulae continuous_approximation continuous_matrix_models correlation_functions correlation_matrix coset_spaces coulomb_blockade coulomb_fluid coupled_quartic_oscillators coupled_random_matrices covariance_matrix critical_statistics crossover_ensembles cse cue cumulants delta-statistics determinantal_point_process determinantal_point_process_higher_dimensions determinants devisme_polynomials diagrammatic_expansions di_bruno_formula differences_between_consecutive_primes dijkgraaf-vafa_theory dirac_operator directed_hopping directed_polymers directed_quantum_chaos discontinuous_linear_statistics discrete_continuous_jacobians discrete_ops discrete_painleve discrete_painleve-i discrete_painleve_property disordered_metals disordered_wires dispersionless_limit dissipative_quantum_chaos d-kp dmpk-equation d-painleve-i d-painleve-ii duality_relation duistermaat-heckman_theorem dynamic_localisation dynamic_systems_at_fixed_point dyson_integration_theorem econophysics e-e_interaction efetov-wegner_terms efetov-zirnbauer_integration_theorem ehrenfest_time eigenvalue_continuum_model eigenvalue_crystallisation eigenvector_correlations eigenvector_statistics elliptic_law energy_diffusion ensembles_with_preferential_basis entanglement_rmt entropy_approach essay euclidean_random_matrices experimental_data 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neural_network new noise non-gaussian_ensembles non-gue non-hermitean_hamiltonians non-hermitean_localisation non-hermitean_rmt noninteger_dimensions_space non-intersecting_brownian_motions non-intersecting_paths_model non-intersecting_random_walks nonlinear_schroedinger_equation nuclear_physics nuclei_data number_of_levels_fluctuations number_theory number_variance numerics odd-n_problem okamoto_polynomials one-matrix_models on-group ops_asymptotics ops_on_unit_circle optimal_fluctuations order-to-chaos_transition orthogonal_polynomials orthogonal_symplectic_spectral_interrelation orthogonal-symplectic_spectral_interrelation orthogonal_unitary_spectral_interrelation orthogonal-unitary_spectral_interrelation painleve painleve-i painleve-ii painleve-ii-hierarchy painleve-iii painleve-iv painleve_property painleve-v painleve-vi parametric_correlations parisi-sourlas_reduction parking_problem partial_derivatives patience_sorting pearcey_process periodic_orbits perturbative_sector pfaffian 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regular-chaotic_transition replica_field_theory replica_method replica_symmetry_breaking resultants review rg riccati_equation riemann_function_zeros riemann-hilbert_problem riemann_hypothesis riemann_zeta_function rmt_applications rmt_central_limit_theorem robnik_billiard root_spaces rpa-random_matrices rsk_algorithm russian saddle_point_analysis scattering_matrix schur_polynomials scientific_publishing seiberg-witten_theory selberg_integral semiclassics semi-poisson_statistics shape_fluctuations shohat_method shor_algorithm shot_noise sinai_billiard sine-gordon_equation sine_law single-ring_theorem six-vertex_model skew_ops skew_ops_asymptotics skew_orthogonal_polynomials s-matrix_ensembles soft_edge soft_level_confinement solitaire_card_game soliton_theory spacing_distribution sparse_random_matrices spectra spectral_form-factor spectrum spectrum_edge spectrum_unfolding spin_chains spin_conductance spin_glasses statistical_mechanics_models stieltjes-wigert_ops stirling_numbers 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cavity_approach central_charge chaotic_cavities character_expansion characteristic_polynomials characters charlier_ops chazy_classes chiral_ginoe chiral_goe chiral_gse chiral_gue chiral_symmetry chiral_transport christoffel-darboux_formula circular_beta_ensembles circular_bus_model circular_law citations classical_dynamics classical_solutions_for_painleve classical_weight_functions climate_data coe color-flavour_transformation combinatorics communications_theory companion_matrix complex_networks condition_number conductance conductance_fluctuations conformal_field_theory connection_formulae continuous_approximation continuous_matrix_models correlation_functions correlation_matrix coset_spaces coulomb_blockade coupled_quartic_oscillators coupled_random_matrices critical_statistics cse cue cumulants delay_times delta-statistics determinantal_point_process determinantal_point_process_higher_dimensions determinants devisme_polynomials diagrammatic_expansions di_bruno_formula 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finite-temperature_effects fokker-planck_equation fredholm_determinant fredholm_pfaffian free_probability freud_weight fuchs full_counting_statistics gap_formation_probability gaudin-mehta_approach gaussian_time_series general_duality_relation generalised_hypergeometric_function genus_expansion ginibre ginoe goe goe_tracy-widom_distribution grand_canonical_ensemble graphene grassmann_integration grassmann_variables gse gse_tracy-widom_distribution gue gue_minor_process gue_tracy-widom_distribution gumbel-distribution hadamard_matrix hamiltonian_formulation_of_painleve hankel_determinant hard_edge harish_chandra_formula hep hermite_ops hermitisation_method h-index hirota_equations history hubbard-stratonovich_transformation human_auditory_cortex human_eeg human_meg hydrodynamics hypergeometric_functions_of_matrix_argument impenetrable_bose_gas increasing_subsequences individual_eigenlevels ingham-siegel_integral integer_partitions integrability integrable_systems integrals_of_motion 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  1. Named by Cayley in 1852 after the author of Pfaff's equation, q. v.
 

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