On 2-partitionable clutters and the MFMC property

zbMATH Open1211.05090arXiv0806.1772MaRDI QIDQ3626867FDOQ3626867

Authors: Alejandro Flores-Méndez, Isidoro Gitler, Enrique Reyes 

Publication date: 14 May 2009

Abstract: We introduce 2-partitionable clutters as the simplest case of the class of $k$-partitionable clutters and study some of their combinatorial properties. In particular, we study properties of the rank of the incidence matrix of these clutters and properties of their minors. A well known conjecture of Conforti and Cornu'ejols cite{ConfortiCornuejols,cornu-book} states: That all the clutters with the packing property have the max-flow min-cut property, i.e. are mengerian. Among the general classes of clutters known to verify the conjecture are: balanced clutters (Fulkerson, Hoffman and Oppenheim cite{FulkersonHoffmanOppenheim}), binary clutters (Seymour cite{Seymour}) and dyadic clutters (Cornu'ejols, Guenin and Margot cite{CornuejolsGueninMargot}). We find a new infinite family of 2-partitionable clutters, that verifies the conjecture. On the other hand we are interested in studying the normality of the Rees algebra associated to a clutter and possible relations with the Conforti and Cornu'ejols conjecture. In fact this conjecture is equivalent to an algebraic statement about the normality of the Rees algebra cite{rocky}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1772

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zbMATH Keywords

normalityhypergraphsRees algebrascluttersMax-flow min-cutmengerian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial optimization (90C27) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Hypergraphs (05C65) Special types (Cohen-Macaulay, Gorenstein, Buchsbaum, etc.) (13H10)

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