Linear-eliminant ideal-membership conjecture for factor-analysis invariants

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Let Ψ\Psi be the covariance matrix of a factor-analysis model. For m2m\geq 2, let fi,R,C,Rˉ,Cˉf_{i,R,C,\bar R,\bar C} be a linear eliminant, and let the off-diagonal (m+1)×(m+1)(m+1)\times(m+1)-minors of Ψ\Psi generate an ideal.

Linear-eliminant membership conjecture. If m2m\geq 2, p2m+2p\geq 2m+2, and RCRˉCˉR\cup C\neq\bar R\cup\bar C, then

fi,R,C,Rˉ,Cˉf_{i,R,C,\bar R,\bar C}

is in the ideal generated by the off-diagonal (m+1)×(m+1)(m+1)\times(m+1)-minors of Ψ\Psi.

This is proposed as the converse to a preceding non-membership proposition. It forms part of the paper's broader finiteness conjectures for the ideals Ip,mI_{p,m}, and the source provides no proof.

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Mathias Drton, Bernd Sturmfels and Seth Sullivant, “Algebraic Factor Analysis: Tetrads, Pentads and Beyond”, arXiv:math/0509390 (2006).

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