168 research outputs found
Finite transducers for divisibility monoids
Divisibility monoids are a natural lattice-theoretical generalization of
Mazurkiewicz trace monoids, namely monoids in which the distributivity of the
involved divisibility lattices is kept as an hypothesis, but the relations
between the generators are not supposed to necessarily be commutations. Here,
we show that every divisibility monoid admits an explicit finite transducer
which allows to compute normal forms in quadratic time. In addition, we prove
that every divisibility monoid is biautomatic.Comment: 20 page
Ehrhart clutters: Regularity and Max-Flow Min-Cut
If C is a clutter with n vertices and q edges whose clutter matrix has column
vectors V={v1,...,vq}, we call C an Ehrhart clutter if {(v1,1),...,(vq,1)} is a
Hilbert basis. Letting A(P) be the Ehrhart ring of P=conv(V), we are able to
show that if A is the clutter matrix of a uniform, unmixed MFMC clutter C, then
C is an Ehrhart clutter and in this case we provide sharp bounds on the
Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of A(P). Motivated by the Conforti-Cornuejols
conjecture on packing problems, we conjecture that if C is both ideal and the
clique clutter of a perfect graph, then C has the MFMC property. We prove this
conjecture for Meyniel graphs, by showing that the clique clutters of Meyniel
graphs are Ehrhart clutters. In much the same spirit, we provide a simple proof
of our conjecture when C is a uniform clique clutter of a perfect graph. We
close with a generalization of Ehrhart clutters as it relates to total dual
integrality.Comment: Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, to appea
Ring graphs and complete intersection toric ideals
We study the family of graphs whose number of primitive cycles equals its
cycle rank. It is shown that this family is precisely the family of ring
graphs. Then we study the complete intersection property of toric ideals of
bipartite graphs and oriented graphs. An interesting application is that
complete intersection toric ideals of bipartite graphs correspond to ring
graphs and that these ideals are minimally generated by Groebner bases. We
prove that any graph can be oriented such that its toric ideal is a complete
intersection with a universal Groebner basis determined by the cycles. It turns
out that bipartite ring graphs are exactly the bipartite graphs that have
complete intersection toric ideals for any orientation.Comment: Discrete Math., to appea
Systems with the integer rounding property in normal monomial subrings
Let C be a clutter and let A be its incidence matrix. If the linear system
x>=0;xA<=1 has the integer rounding property, we give a description of the
canonical module and the a-invariant of certain normal subrings associated to
C. If the clutter is a connected graph, we describe when the aforementioned
linear system has the integer rounding property in combinatorial and algebraic
terms using graph theory and the theory of Rees algebras. As a consequence we
show that the extended Rees algebra of the edge ideal of a bipartite graph is
Gorenstein if and only if the graph is unmixed.Comment: Major revisio
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