Bernstein's conjecture on algebraic matroids of Hadamard products

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Let L1,…,Ld⊂CmL_1, \ldots, L_d \subset \mathbb{C}^m be linear spaces not contained in any coordinate hyperplane, and let r1,…,rdr_1, \ldots, r_d be the rank functions of the corresponding linear matroids. Bernstein's conjecture. The algebraic matroid of the Hadamard product L1∗⋯∗LdL_1 * \cdots * L_d is the matroid induced by the monotone submodular function r1+⋯+rd−(d−1)r_1 + \cdots + r_d - (d-1). This conjectures the natural dd-factor generalisation of Bernstein's theorem for two Hadamard factors; the two-factor case is known, while the general case is presented here as an open problem.

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Dario Antolini, Sean Dewar and Shin-ichi Tanigawa, “Dilworth truncations and Hadamard products of linear spaces”, arXiv:2508.04798 (2025).

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