Conjecture that every gaussoid is compatible with all quadrics in J_n

Let JnJ_n be the ideal whose quadrics include the trinomials defining compatibility of gaussoids, and let a gaussoid be a collection of almost-principal minors satisfying the gaussoid axioms. A gaussoid is compatible with a polynomial when the corresponding vanishing and nonvanishing pattern satisfies that polynomial.

All-quadrics compatibility conjecture. Every gaussoid is compatible with all quadrics in JnJ_n, not just trinomials.

This conjecture proposes that compatibility with the quadratic relations of JnJ_n is already determined by the trinomial relations. The paper presents it as a direction for developing gaussoid theory in parallel with matroid theory; its resolution is not given here.

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Tobias Boege, Alessio D'Alì, Thomas Kahle and Bernd Sturmfels, “The Geometry of Gaussoids”, arXiv:1710.07175 (2018).

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