1. Minimal primes of ideals arising from conditional independence statements
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Irena Swanson and Amelia Taylor
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Discrete mathematics ,Class (set theory) ,Monomial ,Algebra and Number Theory ,Mathematics::Commutative Algebra ,13P10, 13P25 ,Diagonal ,Commutative Algebra (math.AC) ,Mathematics - Commutative Algebra ,Combinatorics ,Primary decomposition ,Boolean prime ideal theorem ,Conditional independence ,Fractional ideal ,FOS: Mathematics ,Minimal prime ,Mathematics - Abstract
We consider ideals arising in the context of conditional independence models that generalize the class of ideals considered by Fink [7] in a way distinct from the generalizations of Herzog-Hibi-Hreinsdottir-Kahle-Rauh [13] and Ay-Rauh [1]. We introduce switchable sets to give a combinatorial description of the minimal prime ideals, and for some classes we describe the minimal components. We discuss many possible interpretations of the ideals we study, including as 2 \times 2 minors of generic hypermatrices. We also introduce a definition of diagonal monomial orders on generic hypermatrices and we compute some Groebner bases., We shortened and streamlined the paper from 24 to 17 pages, we improved several proofs, we updated references, and we added Groebner bases of certain ideals under t-diagonal orders on generic hypermatrices (a generalization of diagonal orders on variables in a generic matrix). The term "admissible" from previous versions is now changed to "switchable"
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- 2013
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