Minimum determinant conjecture for bivariate Bézier collocation submatrices

Let dd be fixed, let Id\mathcal I_d be the set of weak 33-compositions of dd, and for every nonempty subset ΓId\Gamma\subset\mathcal I_d let MΓM_\Gamma be the corresponding Bernstein collocation matrix. Let MIdM_{\mathcal I_d} denote the full collocation matrix. Minimum determinant conjecture.

minΓIdΓdetMΓ=detMId,\min_{\substack{\Gamma\subset\mathcal I_d\\ \Gamma\neq\emptyset}}\det M_\Gamma=\det M_{\mathcal I_d},

where the full determinant is given by the determinant formula in the source. This conjecture strengthens the positivity assertion by proposing the exact smallest determinant among all nonempty principal submatrices. Its status is not resolved by the supplied text.

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Gasper Jaklic and Tadej Kanduc, “On positivity of principal minors of bivariate Bezier collocation matrix”, arXiv:1106.0631 (2015).

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