Ideal clique clutters of perfect graphs have the MFMC property

Let GG be a perfect graph, and let C\mathcal{C} be its clique clutter, whose edges are the maximal cliques of GG. The clutter C\mathcal{C} is ideal when its covering polyhedron has only integral vertices, and it has the max-flow min-cut (MFMC) property in the usual clutter sense. Perfect-graph clique-clutter conjecture. If C\mathcal{C} is ideal, then C\mathcal{C} has the MFMC property. The conjecture is a proposed weakening of the Conforti–Cornuéjols packing-property conjecture, motivated by the fact that idealness is necessary for MFMC and by known sufficient conditions such as the diadic property; the source gives no resolution.

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Jose Martinez-Bernal, Edwin O'Shea and Rafael H. Villarreal, “Ehrhart clutters: Regularity and Max-Flow Min-Cut”, arXiv:0902.1354 (2010).

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