Closure conjecture for positive tilted Richardson cells

Let Tu,v>0\mathcal{T}_{u,v}^{>0} be the totally positive part of a tilted Richardson variety, and let Tu,v0\mathcal{T}_{u,v}^{\geq0} be its totally nonnegative part.

Positive-part closure conjecture. The closure of the positive part equals the nonnegative part:

Tu,v>0=Tu,v0.\overline{\mathcal{T}_{u,v}^{>0}}=\mathcal{T}_{u,v}^{\geq0}.

If true, this would identify the closure of each positive cell with the corresponding nonnegative cell and would support a CW-complex structure whose face poset is the interval poset of the tilted Bruhat interval. The source notes that the classical proof strategy does not apply because tilted Bruhat orders lack a unique maximal element, and gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Jiyang Gao, Shiliang Gao and Yibo Gao, “Tilted Richardson Varieties”, arXiv:2602.05326 (2026).

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