Betti-table symmetry conjecture for graphs formed from glued four-cycles

Let GG be a graph formed by gluing kk copies of the four-cycle C4C_{4} together along one edge. Write bi,j(G)b_{i,j}(\overline{G}) for the graded Betti numbers of its graph curve. Betti-table symmetry conjecture. Then

b2,4(G)=b1,2(G)1,b_{2,4}(\overline{G})=b_{1,2}(\overline{G})-1, bi,i+1(G)=bi+2,i+4(G),i2,b_{i,i+1}(\overline{G})=b_{i+2,i+4}(\overline{G}),\qquad i\geq 2,

and

bk,k+2(G)=(bk+1,k+3(G))21.b_{k,k+2}(\overline{G})=\left(b_{k+1,k+3}(\overline{G})\right)^{2}-1.

These experimentally observed identities describe patterns between the quadratic and cubic strands for this family of graph curves; the source gives them as conjectural future work, with no resolution stated.

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David J. Bruce, Pin-Hung Kao, Evan D. Nash, Ben Perez and Peter Vermeire, “Betti Tables of Reducible Algebraic Curves”, arXiv:1210.3064 (2012).

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