Generalizations of Sylvester's determinantal identity

In this paper we deal with the noteworthy Sylvester's determinantal identity and some of its generalizations. We report the formulae due to Yakovlev, to Gasca, Lopez--Carmona, Ramirez, to Beckermann, Gasca, Mühlbach, and to Mulders in a unified formulation which allows to understand them better and to compare them. Then, we propose a different generalization of Sylvester's classical formula. This new generalization expresses the determinant of a matrix in relation with the determinant of the bordered matrices obtained adding more than one row and one column to the original matrix. Sylvester's identity is recovered as a particular case.