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