Prime characterization conjecture for the reduced Dressian of the cyclic matroid

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

  1. The reduced Dressian Dr‾⁡Tn\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 Dr‾⁡Tp\operatorname{\underline{Dr}}_{{\mathcal T}_p} consists of exactly p−12\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.

References

Primary source

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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