Nonvanishing principal-minor conjecture for Fourier matrices of square-free order
Nonvanishing principal-minor conjecture for Fourier matrices of square-free order
Let be a positive square-free integer, and let be the Fourier matrix, where is a primitive -th root of unity. A principal minor is the determinant of a square submatrix obtained by selecting the same index set for its rows and columns.
Square-free Fourier principal-minor conjecture. If is square-free, then all principal minors of are nonzero.
This extends the nonvanishing phenomenon known for Fourier matrices of prime order and asks for it for every square-free order. The supplied source does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.
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Primary source
Andrei Caragea, Dae Gwan Lee, Romanos Malikiosis and Goetz E. Pfander, “Principal minors of Fourier matrices of square-free order”, arXiv:2505.24326 (2025).
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