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

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http://arXiv.org/abs/1309.4798