Gaussoid axioms suffice for CI implication in singly constrained Gaussian DAG models

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Let G\mathcal{G} be a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and let i ⁣ ⁣ ⁣jKi \perp\!\!\!\perp j \mid K be a conditional independence statement such that i̸GjKi \not\perp_{\mathcal{G}} j \mid K. Denote by MG,i ⁣ ⁣ ⁣jK\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{G}, i \perp\!\!\!\perp j\mid K} the Gaussian model associated with G\mathcal{G} together with this additional conditional independence statement. Let global(G)\operatorname{global}(\mathcal{G}) be the set of global Markov conditional independence statements of G\mathcal{G}.

Gaussoid-axioms sufficiency conjecture. If a ⁣ ⁣ ⁣bCa \perp\!\!\!\perp b \mid C holds for every covariance matrix ΣMG,i ⁣ ⁣ ⁣jK\Sigma \in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{G}, i \perp\!\!\!\perp j\mid K}, then a ⁣ ⁣ ⁣bCa \perp\!\!\!\perp b \mid C is implied by applying the gaussoid axioms to

global(G){i ⁣ ⁣ ⁣jK}.\operatorname{global}(\mathcal{G}) \cup \{i \perp\!\!\!\perp j \mid K\}.

The conjecture is verified in the paper for models involving four random variables, but its validity for arbitrary numbers of variables remains open.

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Mathias Drton, Leonard Henckel, Benjamin Hollering and Pratik Misra, “Faithlessness in Gaussian graphical models”, arXiv:2404.05306 (2024).

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