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5. The Conjecture of Shapiro and Shapiro
The results of Section 4 were inspired by a
remarkable conjecture of Boris Shapiro and Michael Shapiro.
We discuss that conjecture and its extensions in this Section.
There is a separate Web page
discussing this conjecture, and everything known about it in 1999.
We highly recommend its perusal.
4. The Schubert Calculus
 
  - 5.i. The Conjecture of Shapiro and Shapiro for
  Grassmannians 
  
- 5.ii. Rational functions with real critical points
  
- 5.iii. Extensions of the Conjecture of Shapiro
 
   
6. Lower Bounds in the Schubert Calculus
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
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