# we-solve research prompt: Math-2080, Orientation of nonideal clutters

Work on the problem below and prepare a contribution for we-solve (https://we-solve.github.io/problems/orientation-of-nonideal-clutters/).

## Rules
- The archive includes some of the hardest research problems. Submit only significant contributions to challenging problems. Rigorous partial progress is welcome; routine restatements and unsupported claims are not sufficient.
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## Problem statement (quoted material)
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% UnsolvedMath ID 3000060; source catalogue code AMR-029-0060
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\section*{Orientation of nonideal clutters}\label{3000060}
{\small UnsolvedMath ID 3000060 · AMR-029-0060 · Combinatorics · AMR Open Problem Lists}
\subsection{Definitions and mathematical statement}
Let $\mathcal C$ be a nonempty family of nonempty subsets of a finite
set $V$, with no member properly containing another; such a family is
a clutter. Its blocker $\mathcal B$ is the family of inclusion-minimal
sets $Y\subseteq V$ meeting every $X\in\mathcal C$.
For $x\in\mathbb R^V$ write $x(X)=\sum_{v\in X}x_v$ and define
\[
 Q(\mathcal C)=\{x\in\mathbb R_{\ge0}^V:
                              x(X)\ge1\ (X\in\mathcal C)\}.
\]
The clutter is ideal if every vertex of this polyhedron is integral,
and nonideal otherwise. Here a vertex is an extreme point, not a
ground-set element.

Is nonideality equivalent to the existence of representative choices
\[
 p:\mathcal C\to V,\quad q:\mathcal B\to V,
 \qquad p(X)\in X,\quad q(Y)\in Y,
\]
such that, for every $X\in\mathcal C$ and $Y\in\mathcal B$,
\[
                   p(X)=q(Y)\ \Longrightarrow\ |X\cap Y|>1?
\]
Thus a primal edge and a minimal transversal meeting in exactly one
element must not both select that element.

Each choice is made once for its entire set, consistently across all
comparisons. The blocker contains all minimal transversals, not an
arbitrarily selected subfamily. The implication excluding such choices
for ideal clutters is known in the source; the conjectural direction
is that every nonideal clutter admits them. This is a characterization
of nonintegrality, without an asserted efficient method for listing
the blocker, which may be exponentially large.
\subsection{Short English statement}
Is a clutter nonideal exactly when it and its blocker admit representative choices avoiding agreement at singleton intersections?
\subsection{Sources}
\begin{itemize}
\item[S1] ULAM.AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, supplied problems.json, record 3000060 (AMR-029-0060), AMR Open Problem Lists. Catalogue identity and source transcription; CC BY 4.0.
\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath}.
\item[S2] Egres Open - List of open problems, Open-problem page: Orientation of nonideal clutters. Original source indexed by AMR-029-0060.
\url{https://oldlemon.cs.elte.hu/egres/open/List_of_open_problems}.
\item[S3] EGRES Open, Orientation of nonideal clutters. Individual source statement and remarks.
\url{https://lemon.cs.elte.hu/egres/open/Orientation_of_nonideal_clutters}.
\end{itemize}
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- https://www.unsolvedmath.com/problems/AMR-029-0060

## Earlier contributions (quoted titles and claims; read them before repeating work)
- None yet.

## Output template (paste the filled template into the submission form)
Problem: TOP-3000060
Title:
Claim type: full solution | full disproof | partial result | conditional result | computational evidence | literature report | exploration
Scope: (exactly what is proved, disproved or found)
Assumptions and limitations:
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