Toric ideals of lattice path matroids and polymatroids (Q640926)

Let \(M\) be the set of all monomials in a subset of variables \(\underline X\) which are basis of a discrete polymatroidal \(\Gamma \), let \(K[m\in M]\subset K[\underline X]\) be the toric ring associated to the discrete polymatroid \(\Gamma \). It was conjectured by White that the binomial ideal \(I\) defining \(K[m\in M]\) as a quotient \(K[\underline Y]/I\), is generated by quadric binomials corresponding to symmetric basis exchanges. In the paper under review the author proves this conjecture for a special class of discrete polymatroids, namely lattice paths polymatroids, for which the set of quadric binomials corresponding to symmetric basis exchanges is a Gröbner basis of \(I\).