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White's conjecture for matroids and inner projections

Combinatorics 2025-01-30 v1 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

White's conjecture predicts quadratic generators for the ideal of any matroid base polytope. We prove that White's conjecture for any matroid MM implies it also for any matroid MM', where MM and MM' differ by one basis. Our study is motivated by inner projections of algebraic varieties.

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@article{arxiv.2501.17738,
  title  = {White's conjecture for matroids and inner projections},
  author = {Kangjin Han and Mateusz Michałek and Julian Weigert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.17738},
  year   = {2025}
}
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