Dimension conjecture for quadratic motherbody equations

Fix a monic polynomial P(z)P(z) of degree n+2n+2 and a polynomial Q(z)Q(z) of degree at most n+1n+1. Let the quadratic equation referred to in the source as (quadr)(\mathrm{quadr}) be the equation under consideration, and define ΩP,Q\Omega_{P,Q} to be the set of polynomials R(z)R(z) of degree at most nn for which this equation admits a probability measure, meaning a positive motherbody measure of mass 11.

Dimension conjecture for quadratic motherbody equations. The set ΩP,Q\Omega_{P,Q} is a real semi-analytic variety of real dimension nn.

The conjecture seeks a general description of the parameter set for quadratic equations admitting probability motherbody measures. The source says that rigorous results about the structure of this set were not then available, while presenting the stated dimension as a proposed consequence of generalizing earlier methods.

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Rikard Bœgvad and Boris Shapiro, “On mother body measures with algebraic Cauchy transform”, arXiv:1406.1972 (2014).

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