Determinant function/Behavior under row operations/Fact

Let be a field and . Let

be a determinant function.

Then fulfills the following properties.
  1. If a row of is multiplied with , then is multiplied by .
  2. If contains a zero row, then .
  3. If in two rows are swapped, then is multiplied with the factor .
  4. If a multiple of a row is added to another row, then does not change.
  5. If , then, for an upper triangular matrix, we have .