Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students

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In a remarkable breakthrough, two high school students from Oak Park High School, Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi, with guidance from UCLA postdoctoral researcher Daniel Soskin, have solved an open problem related to the theory of Lorentzian polynomials—a field pioneered by Fields Medalist June Huh. Their 75-page paper, "Bounded Ratios for Lorentzian Polynomials," is now available on arXiv. The research investigates the constraints on coefficient ratios within Lorentzian polynomials

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