Nonvanishing principal-minor conjecture for Fourier matrices of square-free order

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Let NN be a positive square-free integer, and let FN=(ωij)0i,jN1{\mathcal{F}}_N=({\omega}^{ij})_{0\leq i,j\leq N-1} be the Fourier matrix, where ω=e2πi/N{\omega}=e^{-2\pi i/N} is a primitive NN-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 NN is square-free, then all principal minors of FN{\mathcal{F}}_N 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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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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