Matúš's rational-point conjecture for discrete conditional independence models

Let C\mathcal{C} be a discrete conditional independence model, let JCJ_{\mathcal{C}} be its conditional-independence ideal, and let V(JC)V(J_{\mathcal{C}}) denote the associated variety of distributions. A distribution pp has rational joint probabilities when every joint probability of pp is rational.

Matúš's rational-point conjecture. For any discrete conditional independence model C\mathcal{C}, there exists a distribution

pV(JC)p \in V(J_{\mathcal{C}})

such that all joint probabilities of pp are rational.

The conjecture concerns rational points on varieties defined by conditional independence constraints and is presented as a connection with an earlier conjecture by Matúš. Its resolution is not specified in the supplied text.

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Oliver Clarke, Kevin Grace, Fatemeh Mohammadi and Harshit J Motwani, “Matroid stratifications of hypergraph varieties, their realization spaces, and discrete conditional independence models”, arXiv:2103.16550 (2022).

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