Burillo's positive pure braid crossing-matrix conjecture

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Let nn be a positive integer, and let MM be an n×nn\times n integer matrix. A zero-diagonal matrix is T0 if, whenever 1i<j<kn1\leq i<j<k\leq n, the conditions M(i,j)=M(j,k)=0M(i,j)=M(j,k)=0 imply M(i,k)=0M(i,k)=0. A braid diagram is positive if all its crossings are positive, and MM is its crossing matrix when M(i,j)M(i,j) is the number of positive crossings minus the number of negative crossings between strands sis_i and sjs_j where sis_i is over sjs_j. Burillo's conjecture. MM is the crossing matrix of some positive pure nn-braid diagram if and only if MM is a non-negative integer T0 symmetric matrix. The conjecture is known for n5n\leq 5, but remains open in general.

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Yuko Ozawa, Ayaka Shimizu and Yoshiro Yaguchi, “The CN matrix of a pure braid projection”, arXiv:2506.08659 (2025).

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