Determinant function/Behavior under row operations/Fact
Let be a field and . Let
be a determinant function.
Then fulfills the following properties.
- If a row of is multiplied with , then is multiplied by .
- If contains a zero row, then .
- If in two rows are swapped, then is multiplied with the factor .
- If a multiple of a row is added to another row, then does not change.
- If , then, for an upper triangular matrix, we have .