Mu–Welker's total positivity conjecture for the barycentric subdivision transformation matrix

Let F\mathcal{F} be the barycentric subdivision, and let HFH_{\mathcal{F}} be the transformation matrix encoding the transformation of the hh-vector under an F\mathcal{F}-uniform subdivision. A matrix is totally positive (TP) if all its minors are non-negative. Mu–Welker's conjecture. The transformation matrix HFH_{\mathcal{F}} is TP. Mu and Welker had shown that this matrix is TP2\mathrm{TP}_2, meaning that all minors of orders at most 22 are non-negative; the conjecture asks for non-negativity of minors of every order.

References

Primary source

Yanxin Liu and Jianxi Mao, “Total positivity of transformation matrices for uniform subdivisions”, arXiv:2607.01577 (2026).

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