The BMV conjecture

About 20 years old · traced to

Let AA and BB be positive definite matrices, and let nn be a positive integer. The BMV conjecture. The polynomial in tt

trace⁡(I+(A+tB)n)\operatorname{trace}\bigl(I+(A+tB)^n\bigr)

has all positive coefficients. The source presents this as the Bessis--Moussa--Villani conjecture in the reformulation of Lieb and Seiringer; no resolution is supplied in the cited passage.

References

Primary source

Steve Fisk, “Polynomials, roots, and interlacing”, arXiv:math/0612833 (2008).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.