Twin-star hypothesis and cycle-free $d$-partitions of $K_{2d}$ ]{Twin-star hypothesis and cycle-free $d$-partitions of $K_{2d}$

Abstract

In this paper we study an equivalence relation defined on the set of cycle-free $d$-partitions of the complete graph $K_{2d}$. We discuss a conjecture which states that this equivalence relation has only one equivalence class, and show that the conjecture is equivalent with the so called twin-star hypothesis. We check the conjecture in the case $d=4$ and disuses how this relates to the determinant-like map $det^{S^2}$.