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A recent conjecture of Caputo, Carlen, Lieb, and Loss, and, independently, of the author, states that the maximum of the permanent of a matrix whose rows are unit vectors in l_p is attained either for the identity matrix I or for a constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alex Samorodnitsky

In this paper we report on new results relating to a conjecture regarding properties of $n\times n$, $n\leq 6$, positive definite matrices. The conjecture has been proven for $n\leq 4$ using computer-assisted sum of squares (SoS) methods…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jeffrey Uhlmann

The purpose of this note is to establish, in terms of the primary coefficients in the framework of the tridiagonal theory developed by Delsarte and Genin in the environment of nonnegative definite Toeplitz matrices, necessary and sufficient…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-06-20 K. Castillo

In this paper, we confirm six conjectures on the exact values of some permanents, relating them to the Genocchi numbers of the first and second kinds as well as the Euler numbers. For example, we prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Shishuo Fu , Zhicong Lin , Zhi-Wei Sun

We consider polynomials in R[x] which map the set of nonnegative (element-wise) matrices of a given order into itself. Let n be a positive integer and define P(n)= {p in R[x] : p(A) is nonnegative (element-wise), for all A, A an n-by-n…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Raphael Loewy

We develop a Hurwitz stability criterion for nonmonic matrix polynomials via column reduction, generalizing existing approaches constrained by the monic assumption and thus serving as a more natural extension of Gantmacher's classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Zixiang Ni , Yongjian Hu , Xuzhou Zhan

We prove a stability version of a general result that bounds the permanent of a matrix in terms of its operator norm. More specifically, suppose $A$ is an $n \times n$ matrix over $\mathbb{C}$ (resp. $\mathbb{R}$), and let $\mathcal{P}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Ross Berkowitz , Pat Devlin

We show that smooth curves of monic complex polynomials $P_a (Z)=Z^n+\sum_{j=1}^n a_j Z^{n-j}$, $a_j : I \to \mathbb C$ with $I \subset \mathbb R$ a compact interval, have absolutely continuous roots in a uniform way. More precisely, there…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Adam Parusinski , Armin Rainer

We investigate structural properties of the cone of roots of relative Steiner polynomials of convex bodies. We prove that they are closed, monotonous with respect to the dimension, and that they cover the whole upper half-plane, except the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-21 Martin Henk , María A. Hernández Cifre , Eugenia Saorín

The aim of this paper is to make a systematical study on the stability of polynomials in combinatorics. Applying the characterizations of Borcea and Br\"and\'en concerning linear operators preserving stability, we present criteria for real…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Ming-Jian Ding , Bao-Xuan Zhu

June Huh and Matthew Stevens conjectured that the Hilbert-Poincar\'e series of the Chow ring of any matroid is a polynomial with only real zeros. We prove this conjecture for the class of uniform matroids. We also prove that the Chow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Petter Brändén , Lorenzo Vecchi

We give new sufficient conditions for a sequence of polynomials to have only real zeros based on the method of interlacing zeros. As applications we derive several well-known facts, including the reality of zeros of orthogonal polynomials,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-17 Lily L. Liu , Yi Wang

We prove two recent conjectures of Bourn and Erickson (2023) regarding the real-rootedness of a certain family of polynomials $N_n(t)$ as well as the sum of their coefficients. These polynomials arise as the numerators of generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Ming-Jian Ding , Jiang Zeng

We develop techniques to deal with monotonicity of sequences z_{n+1}/z_n and \sqrt[n]{z_n}. A series of conjectures of Zhi-Wei Sun and of Amdeberhan et al. are verified in certain unified approaches.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Yi Wang , Bao-Xuan Zhu

We present a deterministic algorithm, which, for any given 0< epsilon < 1 and an nxn real or complex matrix A=(a_{ij}) such that | a_{ij}-1| < 0.19 for all i, j computes the permanent of A within relative error epsilon in n^{O(ln n -ln…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Alexander Barvinok

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$. We conjecture that \[2n^+(G) \le n^-(G)(n^-(G) + 1),\] where $n^+(G)$ and $n^-(G)$ denote the number of positive and negative eigenvalues of $A(G)$, respectively. This conjecture generalizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Saieed Akbari , Clive Elphick , Hitesh Kumar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada , Quanyu Tang

In this paper, we study the stability of matrix polynomials under structured perturbations of their coefficients. More precisely, we consider a family of matrix polynomials \[…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Cong Trinh Le , Gue Myung Lee , Yongdo Lim , Tien Son Pham

The Jacobian conjecture in dimension $n$ asserts that any polynomial endomorphism of $n$-dimensional affine space over a field of zero characteristic, with the Jacobian equal 1, is invertible. The Dixmier conjecture in rank $n$ asserts that…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Alexei Belov-Kanel , Maxim Kontsevich

The Weitzenboeck theorem states that the algebra of constants of a linear locally nilpotent derivation of the polynomial algebra K[Z]=K[z_1,...,z_m] in m variables over a field K of characteristic 0 is finitely generated. If m=2n and the…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2008-04-21 Vesselin Drensky , Leonid Makar-Limanov

We prove a multivariate strengthening of Brenti's result that every root of the Eulerian polynomial of type $B$ is real. Our proof combines a refinement of the descent statistic for signed permutations with the notion of real stability-a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Mirkó Visontai , Nathan Williams