The monotone secant conjecture in the real schubert calculus

Nickolas Hein, Christopher J. Hillar, Abraham Martin Del Campo, Frank Sottile, Zach Teitler

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Abstract

The monotone secant conjecture posits a rich class of polynomial systems, all of whose solutions are real. These systems come from the Schubert calculus on flag manifolds, and the monotone secant conjecture is a compelling generalization of the Shapiro conjecture for Grassmannians (theorem of Mukhin, Tarasov, and Varchenko). We present some theoretical evidence for this conjecture, as well as computational evidence obtained by 1.9 terahertz-years of computing, and we discuss some of the phenomena we observed in our data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)261-269
Number of pages9
JournalExperimental Mathematics
Volume24
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Jul 2015

Keywords

  • Schubert calculus
  • Shapiro conjecture
  • flag manifold

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