Refinement conjecture for the secant degeneracy length of binary-form strata

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Let μ⊢d\mu\vdash d be a partition, let μˉ\bar\mu denote the associated standard stratum, and let ℓμˉ\ell_{\bar\mu} and ℓμ′\ell_{\mu'} denote the corresponding secant degeneracy lengths. Write μ′⪰μ\mu'\succeq\mu for the refinement partial order. Refinement conjecture. For every partition μ⊢d\mu\vdash d, there exists a partition μ′⪰μ\mu'\succeq\mu such that

ℓμˉ=ℓμ′.\ell_{\bar\mu}=\ell_{\mu'}.

The claim is based on extensive calculations and appears in the paper's final list of open problems; no resolution is supplied in the source.

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Gleb Nenashev, Boris Shapiro and Michael Shapiro, “Secant degeneracy index of the standard strata in the space of binary forms”, arXiv:1612.08651 (2017).

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