Invertibility conjecture for Gram matrices of monomial-potential orthogonal polynomials

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Let dd be a positive integer and a0a\geq0, and consider the hermitian inner product with density

ρa(z)=exp(az2+id(zd+zˉd)).\rho_a(z)=\exp\left(-a|z|^2+\frac{i}{d}(z^d+\bar z^d)\right).

For each nonnegative integer NN, let GN=((zn,zm))n,m=0NG_N=((z^n,z^m))_{n,m=0}^N be its Gram matrix on the monomial basis. Gram-matrix invertibility conjecture. The matrices GNG_N are invertible for every N=0,1,2,N=0,1,2,\dots and every a0a\geq0. This would provide a criterion ensuring the existence of the associated orthogonal polynomials for all finite degrees; the source gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Giovanni Felder and Jens Hoppe, “Orthogonal Polynomials with Complex Densities and Quantum Minimal Surfaces”, arXiv:2504.06197 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1808.01376, arXiv:1012.0835.

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