Bessis–Moussa–Villani conjecture

Let AA and BB be Hermitian n×nn\times n matrices, with BB positive semidefinite. Let Tr\operatorname{Tr} denote the trace. Bessis–Moussa–Villani conjecture. The function

λTrexp(AλB)\lambda\mapsto\operatorname{Tr}\exp(A-\lambda B)

is the Laplace transform of a positive measure on [0,)[0,\infty). The conjecture was subsequently solved, so the assertion is now a theorem.

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Primary source

Robin Pemantle, “Hyperbolicity and stable polynomials in combinatorics and probability”, arXiv:1210.3231 (2012).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2012). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0802.1153, arXiv:math/0507018, arXiv:math/0507306.

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