Toric geometry of cuts and splits

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Abstract: Associated to any graph is a toric ideal whose generators record relations among the cuts of the graph. We study these ideals and the geometry of the corresponding toric varieties. Our theorems and conjectures relate the combinatorial structure of the graph and the corresponding cut polytope to algebraic properties of the ideal. Cut ideals generalize toric ideals arising in phylogenetics and the study of contingency tables.


In the article under review, the authors study a homogeneous toric ideal associated to a finite graph \(G\), namely the cut ideal \(I_G\) of \(G\). First of all they use toric fiber products to describe how generating sets and Gröbner bases of \(I_G\) can be computed when \(G\) admits a certain clique-sum decomposition. Also they make some computations and outline a number of conjectures. Finally they present applications to algebraic statistics.




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