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White's Conjecture on Matroids

White conjectured that the symmetric exchange binomials generate the toric ideal of a matroid. This is now known to be false; a rank $9$ binary matroid constitutes a counterexample.

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Occurred: Jul 2, 2026

Delta type: SOURCE CLAIM

Assumptions: VibeMathed verification: unreviewed. Publication: preprint. AI contribution: ai-discovered. Imported under CC BY 4.0.

Canonical aliases: White's Conjecture on Matroids · White's conjecture

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Matt Larson
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ChatGPT-5.5 Pro
model · ai model contributor · OpenAI

Claude Opus 4.8
model · ai model contributor · Anthropic

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