Totally positive secant conjecture for Schubert problems
Totally positive secant conjecture for Schubert problems
Let , and let be pairwise disjoint intervals of . For each , let be a multiset of points in , and let be spanned by for every , where is the multiplicity of in . A real Grassmannian point is totally nonnegative, respectively totally positive, when all its Plücker coordinates are nonnegative, respectively positive, up to rescaling. Totally positive secant conjecture. If every , the Schubert problem has distinct solutions , all real and totally nonnegative; if every , it has distinct solutions, all real and totally positive. This is a totally positive analogue of the secant conjecture and implies it; the two parts are equivalent by a limiting argument, but the conjecture remains open.
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Steven N. Karp, “Wronskians, total positivity, and real Schubert calculus”, arXiv:2110.02301 (2023).
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