The skew-Hermitian plus rank-one Hermitian principal-minor conjecture

Let KK be a valued field with an automorphic involution preserving the valuation. Let A=B+CA=B+C, where BKn×nB\in K^{n\times n} is skew-Hermitian and CKn×nC\in K^{n\times n} is Hermitian of rank one. The principal-minor valuations of AA are the function assigning to each S[n]S\subseteq[n] the valuation of the principal minor indexed by SS. Skew-Hermitian plus rank-one Hermitian conjecture. The valuations of the principal minors of AA form a valuated Δ\Delta-matroid. This would extend the corresponding result for symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices and the proved skew-symmetric plus rank-one symmetric case to valued fields with involution; it is stated as open in the source.

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Nathan Cheung, Tracy Chin, Gaku Liu and Cynthia Vinzant, “Valuated Delta Matroids and Principal Minors of Hermitian matrices”, arXiv:2507.16275 (2025).

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