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We consider a natural number

n

n \geq 2

and the matrices
\begin{tabular}{cc}

A= \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 & 3 & \cdots & n\\ n & 1 & 2 & \cdots & n - 1\\ n - 1 & n & 1 & \cdots & n - 2\\ \cdots & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots\\2 & 3 & 4 & \cdots & 1 \end{pmatrix}

\end{tabular}
Show that

\epsilon^ndet\left(I_n-A^{2n}\right)+\epsilon^{n-1}det\left(\epsilon I_n-A^{2n}\right)+\epsilon^{n-2}det\left(\epsilon^2 I_n-A^{2n}\right)+\cdots +det\left(\epsilon^n I_n-A^{2n}\right)

=n(-1)^{n-1}\left[\frac{n^n(n+1)}{2}\right]^{2n^2-4n}\left(1+(n+1)^{2n}\left(2n+(-1)^n{{2n}\choose{n}}\right)\right)

where

\epsilon \in \mathbb{C}\backslash \mathbb{R}

\epsilon^{n+1}=1

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