Wronskian positivity conjecture for totally nonnegative and totally positive spaces

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Let VGrk,n(R)V\in\operatorname{Gr}_{k,n}(\mathbb{R}). Regard the Wronskian Wr(V)\operatorname{Wr}(V) as having a zero at -\infty when its degree is less than k(nk)k(n-k). Wronskian positivity conjecture. If all complex zeros of Wr(V)\operatorname{Wr}(V) lie in [,0][-\infty,0], then VV is totally nonnegative; if all lie in (,0)(-\infty,0), then VV is totally positive. The nonnegative case was independently posed by Evgeny Mukhin and Vitaly Tarasov in 2017. The conjecture is a dual formulation of the osculating special case of the totally positive secant conjecture and remains open.

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Steven N. Karp, “Wronskians, total positivity, and real Schubert calculus”, arXiv:2110.02301 (2023).

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