Prime characterization conjecture for the reduced Dressian of the cyclic matroid

Let n7n\geqslant 7 be an integer, and let Tn{\mathcal T}_n denote the cyclic matroid used in the paper. Write DrTn\operatorname{\underline{Dr}}_{{\mathcal T}_n} for its reduced Dressian. Reduced Dressian conjecture.

  1. The reduced Dressian DrTn\operatorname{\underline{Dr}}_{{\mathcal T}_n} is one-dimensional if and only if nn is prime.
  2. If n=pn=p is prime, then the one-dimensional fan DrTp\operatorname{\underline{Dr}}_{{\mathcal T}_p} consists of exactly p12\frac{p-1}{2} rays.

The conjecture concerns the combinatorial structure of the reduced Dressians of the cyclic matroids Tn{\mathcal T}_n; the paper presents it after computations for several examples, and no resolution is supplied here.

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Matthew Baker, June Huh, Mario Kummer and Oliver Lorscheid, “Lorentzian polynomials and matroids over triangular hyperfields 1: Topological aspects”, arXiv:2508.02907 (2025).

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