Burillo's positive pure braid crossing-matrix conjecture
Let be a positive integer, and let be an integer matrix. A zero-diagonal matrix is T0 if, whenever , the conditions imply . A braid diagram is positive if all its crossings are positive, and is its crossing matrix when is the number of positive crossings minus the number of negative crossings between strands and where is over . Burillo's conjecture. is the crossing matrix of some positive pure -braid diagram if and only if is a non-negative integer T0 symmetric matrix. The conjecture is known for , but remains open in general.
References
Primary source
Yuko Ozawa, Ayaka Shimizu and Yoshiro Yaguchi, “The CN matrix of a pure braid projection”, arXiv:2506.08659 (2025).
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