Conjecture on the maximal number of bi-infinite branches with a common past direction

Let dd be the dimension, let BI\text{BI} denote the set of bi-infinite branches, and consider their asymptotic directions toward the past, represented by limits limtf(t)Rd\lim_{t\to -\infty}f(t)\in\mathbb{R}^d. Maximal-branch conjecture. Almost surely, the maximal number of bi-infinite branches sharing the same asymptotic direction toward the past is d+1d+1; that is,

maxxRd#{fBI:limtf(t)=x}=d+1.\max_{x\in\mathbb{R}^d}\#\left\{f\in\text{BI}:\lim_{t\to -\infty}f(t)=x\right\}=d+1.

The question of how many bi-infinite branches can share a common past asymptotic direction is explicitly stated to be unsolved. The conjecture predicts an almost-sure sharp upper bound, attained by the maximal number of such branches.

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Lucas Flammant, “The Directed Spanning Forest in the Hyperbolic space”, arXiv:1909.13731 (2022).

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