Face-relative-interior conjecture for stubborn forms

Let XPnX\subset \mathbb{P}^n be a totally real variety, let PXP_X denote its cone of nonnegative forms, and let F\mathcal{F} be a face of PXP_X. Face-relative-interior conjecture. Either every point in the relative interior of F\mathcal{F} is stubborn, or no point in the relative interior of F\mathcal{F} is stubborn. For smooth curves, this follows from the characterization in terms of real zeroes, but the assertion is open for general totally real varieties.

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Lorenzo Baldi, Grigoriy Blekherman, Khazhgali Kozhasov, Daniel Plaumann, Bruce Reznick and Rainer Sinn, “Stubborn Polynomials”, arXiv:2602.01191 (2026).

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