In this note we observe that membership in moment cones of spaces of quiver representations can be decided in strongly polynomial time, for any acyclic quiver. This generalizes a recent result by Chindris-Collins-Kline for bipartite quivers. Their approach was to construct "multiplicity polytopes" with a geometric realization similar to the Knutson-Tao polytopes for tensor product multiplicities. Here we show that a less geometric but straightforward variant of their construction leads to such a multiplicity polytope for any acyclic quiver. Tardos' strongly polynomial time algorithm for combinatorial linear programming along with the saturation property then implies that moment cone membership can be decided in strongly polynomial time. The analogous question for semi-invariants remains open.
翻译:在本文中,我们观察到,在任何有向边无环图中,可以强多项式时间内决定空间中齐次的瞬间锥成员资格。这一结果是Chindris-Collins-Kline最近对于二分图确定多重性多面体的推广。他们的方法是构造一个几何实现类似于Knutson-Tao多面体的“多重性多面体”。在这里,我们展示了一个相对简单的变量,通过其构造出任何有向边无环图的多重性多面体。Tardos'强多项式时间算法用于组合线性编程和饱和特性,随后便得到了决定瞬间锥成员资格的强多项式时间算法。类似的问题对于半不变量仍然是开放的。