Baker's subdivision and metric-graph gonality conjecture

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Let GG be a connected loopless multigraph, let Γ(G)\Gamma(G) be the corresponding metric graph with unit edge lengths, and let r≥1r \geq 1. For each integer k≥1k \geq 1, let σk(G)\sigma_k(G) denote the multigraph obtained by subdividing every edge of GG into kk parts. Baker's gonality conjecture. Then:

(a)

dgon⁡r(G)=dgon⁡r(σk(G))\operatorname{dgon}_{r}(G) = \operatorname{dgon}_{r}(\sigma_k(G))

for all k≥1k \geq 1; and

(b)

dgon⁡r(Γ(G))=dgon⁡r(G).\operatorname{dgon}_{r}(\Gamma(G)) = \operatorname{dgon}_{r}(G).

This was posed as the second remaining conjecture in Baker's work on divisors on graphs. The paper's abstract states that it settles this conjecture in the negative by exhibiting graphs whose metric divisorial gonality is strictly smaller than their discrete divisorial gonality, so the conjecture is refuted.

References

Primary source

Josse van Dobben de Bruyn, Harry Smit and Marieke van der Wegen, “Discrete and metric divisorial gonality can be different”, arXiv:2106.12568 (2021).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1909.10421, arXiv:1909.12924, arXiv:1606.06412.

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