Majorization characterization conjecture for unimodal jump distributions

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Let pp and qq be symmetric unimodal weight functions, meaning that i↦p(i)i\mapsto p(i) and i↦q(i)i\mapsto q(i) are symmetric and decreasing for i≥0i\geq0. Let p⪯Mqp\preceq_Mq denote majorization, and let ZtpZ_t^p and ZtqZ_t^q be the corresponding partition functions. Majorization characterization conjecture. Assuming that pp and qq are symmetric and unimodal,

p⪯Mq⟺Ztq⪯cvZtpp\preceq_Mq\quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad Z_t^q\preceq_{cv}Z_t^p

for all probability measures P\mathbb P satisfying the paper's spatial and integrability assumptions. Since majorization alone is not sufficient without the symmetry and unimodality restriction, this conjecture proposes that the restriction makes majorization both necessary and sufficient; it remains open.

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Stefan Junk, “Comparison of partition functions in a space-time random environment”, arXiv:1811.03684 (2018).

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