Kalai's Abstract Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture

Let G(k,n){\mathcal G}'(k,n) be the collection of graphs whose vertices are labeled by kk-subsets of an nn-element set, with the property that for vertices labeled by SS and TT, there is a path between them all of whose vertex labels contain STS\cap T. Kalai's Abstract Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture (APHC). If GG(k,n)G\in {\mathcal G}(k,n) is connected, then the diameter of GG is bounded above by a polynomial in kk and nn. This conjecture abstracts the Hirsch bound for polytope graphs and motivates an algebraic formulation through linear presentations of square-free monomial ideals; its resolution status is not specified in the source.

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Giorgi Butbaia, Paul Orland, Coco Huang, Davide Passaro, Lucas Fagan, Michele Tarquini, Hailong Dao, David Eisenbud, Ali Shehper and Sergei Gukov, “Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-Reward Search in Commutative Algebra”, arXiv:2606.22922 (2026).

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