The same-loop branch for a chain of two loops #
The graph is the vertex wedge of two positive two-path cycles. This file isolates the same-left-side argument in paper Proposition 3.7.
On a connected genus-one graph every positive-degree divisor has the
Riemann--Roch rank deg D - 1.
Distinct degree-one classes on a connected genus-one graph make every divisor submodular. This is the factor-level submodularity input for the opposite-side vertex-wedge branch of the genus-two classification.
If a genus-one left factor contains a third vertex besides the two marks, the divisor consisting of the gluing mark and that third vertex has negative marked second difference after attaching a rigid genus-one right factor.
When neither mark is the gluing vertex, the gluing vertex itself supplies the auxiliary chip in the paper's negative-second-difference witness.
A chip on the unmarked part of the right rigid factor cannot repair the degree-zero left marked difference after wedging.
Proposition 3.7, same-loop branch #
On a vertex wedge of two positive subdivided cycles, with both marks on the left cycle and one mark at the gluing vertex, every divisor is submodular exactly when the marked cycle has total combinatorial length two.
Distinct-loop clause of Proposition 3.7 for arbitrary non-gluing marks on the two cycle factors.
The missing arbitrary-mark negative direction of Proposition 3.7. If a
left loop has at least three vertices, every pair of distinct marks on that
loop admits a negative-rankDelta divisor, whether or not either mark is the
gluing vertex.
Full same-loop clause of Proposition 3.7 for arbitrary distinct marks on the left loop. When the loop has length two, distinctness forces its two vertices to be precisely the marks; at every larger length the preceding explicit witness gives non-submodularity.