The characteristic-two Hermitian plus rank-one conjecture

Assume char⁡K=2\operatorname{char} K=2, let FF be the fixed field of the involution on KK with F≠KF\ne K, and write K=F[ω]K=F[\omega] where ω2+ω+β=0\omega^2+\omega+\beta=0 for some β∈F\beta\in F and ω‾=ω+1\overline{\omega}=\omega+1. Let A=B+ωCA=B+\omega C, where B,C∈Kn×nB,C\in K^{n\times n} are Hermitian and CC has rank one. Characteristic-two Hermitian plus rank-one conjecture. The valuations of the principal minors of AA form a valuated Δ\Delta-matroid. In characteristic two, the preceding skew-Hermitian plus rank-one statement is already true because the matrix is Hermitian; this is the additional case proposed by 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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