Symmetry conjecture for the genus of the central curve

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Let mm be the size of the symmetric matrices and let dd denote the dimension parameter for the central curve. Write genus(m,d)\mathrm{genus}(m,d) for its genus. The complementary parameter is (m+12)d\binom{m+1}{2}-d. Symmetry conjecture.

genus(m,d)=genus(m,(m+12)d).\mathrm{genus}(m,d)=\mathrm{genus}\left(m,\binom{m+1}{2}-d\right).

This conjecture predicts a symmetry in the genus values of central curves associated with semidefinite programming under complementary dimension parameters. The source gives the conjecture after observing a missing table entry that is conjecturally equal to 3333; no resolution is provided here.

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Serkan Hoşten, Isabelle Shankar and Angélica Torres, “The degree of the central curve in semidefinite, linear, and quadratic programming”, arXiv:2011.15115 (2021).

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