[Banach] Abstract of a paper by D.I. Florentin, V.D. Milman, and R. Schneider

This is an announcement for the paper "A characterization of the mixed discriminant" by D.I. Florentin, V.D. Milman, and R. Schneider. Abstract: We characterize the mixed discriminant of positive semi definite matrices using its most basic properties. As a corollary we establish its minimality among non negative and multi additive functionals. Archive classification: math.FA Submitted from: danflorentin@gmail.com The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1309.4798 or http://arXiv.org/abs/1309.4798