Radicality conjecture for off-diagonal entries of Gram matrices

Let KnK_n be the complete graph on nn vertices, let k\mathbb{k} be a field, and let asymk(radical,Kn)\operatorname{asym}_{\mathbb{k}}(\mathrm{radical},K_n) denote the asymptotic threshold for radicality of the corresponding Lovász–Saks–Schrijver ideals. Equivalently, let XX be an n×dn\times d matrix of variables, and consider the ideal generated by the off-diagonal entries of XXTXX^T.

Radicality conjecture.

asymk(radical,Kn)=1\operatorname{asym}_{\mathbb{k}}(\mathrm{radical},K_n)=1

(at least if char(k)=0\operatorname{char}(\mathbb{k})=0); equivalently, the ideal of the off-diagonal entries of XXTXX^T is radical for all nn and dd.

This conjecture gives a concrete radicality prediction for the Lovász–Saks–Schrijver ideal associated with the complete graph. The source specifies the characteristic-zero case, and no resolution is provided.

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Primary source

Aldo Conca and Volkmar Welker, “Lovasz-Saks-Schrijver ideals and coordinate sections of determinantal varieties”, arXiv:1801.07916 (2018).

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