The totally stable matrix conjecture

About 20 years old · traced to

Let f(x,y)=∑fi(x)yi∈P2posf(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)=(f0f1f2⋯0f0f1⋯00f0⋯⋮⋮⋮⋱).\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.

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.