Bernoulli-moment characterization conjecture for distinguished matrices

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Fix nNn\in\mathbb{N}. Let TnS1(R)T_n^{S^1}(\mathbb{R}) be the set of upper triangular real matrices with diagonal entries 11 for which the eigenvalues of S1St\,S^{-1}S^t lie on the unit circle, and let Tnuni(Z)T_n^{uni}(\mathbb{Z}) be the corresponding integral unipotent triangular matrices. For a matrix STnS1(R)Tnuni(Z)S\in T_n^{S^1}(\mathbb{R})\cap T_n^{uni}(\mathbb{Z}), suppose the Cecotti–Vafa recipe supplies an ordered spectrum Sp(S)=(α1,,αn)\operatorname{Sp}(S)=(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_n), and let Γ2kBer\Gamma^{Ber}_{2k} denote its Bernoulli moments.

Bernoulli-moment characterization conjecture. There is a family of functions r(k,n,ν):R>0R>0r(k,n,\nu):\mathbb{R}_{>0}\to\mathbb{R}_{>0} such that a matrix SS is a distinguished matrix of a singularity if and only if its Coxeter–Dynkin diagram CDD(S)CDD(S) is connected and, for every kNk\in\mathbb{N},

0(1)kΓ2kBer(Sp(S),αnα1)r(k,n,αnα1).0\leq(-1)^k\Gamma^{Ber}_{2k}(\operatorname{Sp}(S),\alpha_n-\alpha_1)\leq r(k,n,\alpha_n-\alpha_1).

The conjecture is intended to characterize distinguished matrices through the full sequence of Bernoulli-moment inequalities. The paper presents it as part of a tower of conjectures and does not establish the required bounds or the converse characterization in the indefinite cases.

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Sven Balnojan and Claus Hertling, “Characterization of distinguished matrices of isolated hypersurface singularities through their spectral numbers”, arXiv:2508.15497 (2026).

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