NOETHER NORMALIZATIONS OF SOME SUBRINGS OF GRAPHS (Q2777950)

Given a field \(K\) and a graph \(G\) on the vertex set \(\{x_1,...,x_n\}\), the edge subring of \(G\) is the \(K\)-subalgebra \(K[G]=K[\{x_ix_j |\;x_i\;\text{{ is adjacent to }}x_j\}]\) of the polynomial ring \(K[x_1,...,x_n]\). The main result of this paper is an explicit description of the Noether normalization of \(K[G]\) when \(G\) is a complete graph, under some assumption on the characteristic of \(K\). By using the notion of minimal vertex cover of a graph it turns out that this normalization can be used as a model to determine Noether normalizations for some other subrings of the form \(K[G]\).