Transience conjecture for the frog model on supercritical Galton–Watson trees

Let GW\mathsf{GW} be a Galton–Watson measure defined by (pi)i0(p_i)_{i\geq 0} with mean offspring

iipi>1.\sum_i i p_i>1.

For a tree T\mathsf{T} sampled from GW\mathsf{GW}, let FM(T,η,SRW)\mathrm{FM}(\mathsf{T},\eta,\mathsf{SRW}) denote the frog model with sleeping-frog mean ηˉ\bar{\eta}.

Transience conjecture. There exists a constant c=c(GW)>0c=c(\mathsf{GW})>0 such that FM(T,η,SRW)\mathrm{FM}(\mathsf{T},\eta,\mathsf{SRW}) is transient for GW\mathsf{GW}-almost all infinite realizations T\mathsf{T} whenever ηˉ<c\bar{\eta}<c.

The conjecture would extend the paper’s transient-phase result from offspring distributions with bounded support and sufficiently large minimum positive offspring to every supercritical Galton–Watson measure. The source gives no resolution, so the conjecture remains open.

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Sebastian Müller and Gundelinde Maria Wiegel, “On transience of frogs on Galton-Watson trees”, arXiv:2002.12008 (2020).

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