Mu–Welker's total positivity conjecture for the barycentric subdivision transformation matrix
Let be the barycentric subdivision, and let be the transformation matrix encoding the transformation of the -vector under an -uniform subdivision. A matrix is totally positive (TP) if all its minors are non-negative. Mu–Welker's conjecture. The transformation matrix is TP. Mu and Welker had shown that this matrix is , meaning that all minors of orders at most are non-negative; the conjecture asks for non-negativity of minors of every order.
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Primary source
Yanxin Liu and Jianxi Mao, “Total positivity of transformation matrices for uniform subdivisions”, arXiv:2607.01577 (2026).
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