Product-form Poisson conjecture for binary reaction networks

Let a reaction network have complexes yy satisfying y12\\|y\\\|_1\le 2, and let the initial distribution of its stochastically modeled process be a product of Poisson distributions. Let u(t)u(t) solve the mass-action equation, and let B(u)B(u) be the diffusion matrix defined by

Bij(u)=kκkuyk(ykiykjykiykjδi,jζki).B_{ij}(u)=\sum_k\kappa_k u^{y_k}\bigl(y'_{ki}y'_{kj}-y_{ki}y_{kj}-\delta_{i,j}\zeta_{ki}\bigr).

Product-form Poisson conjecture. If B(u(t))=0B(u(t))=0, then the distribution of the process XtX_t is a product of Poisson distributions for all time.

This conjecture asserts that, for binary reaction networks with Poisson product-form initial data, vanishing diffusion in the associated Fokker–Planck representation preserves the product-form Poisson law along the deterministic mass-action trajectory. The source presents this as a conjectural consequence of the Poisson representation; its resolution is not established in the supplied text.

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David F. Anderson, David Schnoerr and Chaojie Yuan, “Time-dependent product-form Poisson distributions for reaction networks with higher order complexes”, arXiv:1904.11583 (2019).

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