Concavity conjecture for the speed of the maximum of frogs with drift

For p[0,1]p\in[0,1], let the frog model with drift parameter pp have maximum speed, namely the limiting speed of its rightmost frog, denoted by v(p)v(p). Concavity conjecture. The speed of the maximum is a concave function of pp; that is, for all p1,p2[0,1]p_1,p_2\in[0,1] and λ[0,1]\lambda\in[0,1],

v(λp1+(1λ)p2)λv(p1)+(1λ)v(p2).v(\lambda p_1+(1-\lambda)p_2)\geq \lambda v(p_1)+(1-\lambda)v(p_2).

The paper presents this as an open problem motivated by simulations and a heuristic involving a stationary distribution of the number of frogs at the maximum; it does not establish the claimed concavity.

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Thomas Höfelsauer and Felizitas Weidner, “The speed of frogs with drift on Z”, arXiv:1505.05006 (2016).

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