The totally stable matrix conjecture

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Let f(x,y)=fi(x)yiP2posf(x,y)=\sum f_i(x)y^i\in\mathbf{P}^{\mathrm{pos}}_2, and form the upper-triangular coefficient matrix

φ(f)(x,y)=(f0f1f20f0f100f0).\varphi(f)(x,y)= \begin{pmatrix} f_0&f_1&f_2&\cdots\\ 0&f_0&f_1&\cdots\\ 0&0&f_0&\cdots\\ \vdots&\vdots&\vdots&\ddots \end{pmatrix}.

A minor means the determinant of any finite square submatrix. The totally stable matrix conjecture. Every minor of φ(f)(x,y)\varphi(f)(x,y) is a stable polynomial. The source describes this as being suggested by empirical evidence and does not prove it in general.

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Primary source

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

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