Symmetric exchange conjecture for bounded powers of edge ideals

Let GG be a finite graph on nn vertices and let cZ>0n\mathfrak{c}\in\mathbb{Z}_{>0}^n. Let δc(I(G))\delta_{\mathfrak{c}}(I(G)) be the largest integer qq for which the bounded power (I(G)q)c(I(G)^q)_{\mathfrak{c}} is nonzero, and let B(G,c)\mathcal{B}(G,\mathfrak{c}) be the polymatroid whose bases are the minimal monomial generators of (I(G)δc(I(G)))c(I(G)^{\delta_{\mathfrak{c}}(I(G))})_{\mathfrak{c}}. Denote by JB(G,c)J_{\mathcal{B}(G,\mathfrak{c})} the toric ideal of this polymatroid.

Symmetric exchange conjecture. The toric ideal

JB(G,c)J_{\mathcal{B}(G,\mathfrak{c})}

of the polymatroid B(G,c)\mathcal{B}(G,\mathfrak{c}) is generated by symmetric exchange binomials.

The conjecture concerns the toric ideals arising from the maximal nonzero bounded powers of edge ideals. The paper presents it as a goal of the project and gives several classes of polymatroids for which the analogous generation property is proved, but the supplied text does not state a resolution of this general claim.

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Takayuki Hibi and Seyed Amin Seyed Fakhari, “Bounded powers of edge ideals: symmetric exchange binomials”, arXiv:2507.11815 (2025).

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