The interior-vertex lower-bound conjecture for grid pebbling distributions

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Let PP be a solvable pebbling distribution on the grid. A vertex is interior if it does not lie on the boundary of the grid.

Interior-vertex lower-bound conjecture. For every interior vertex XX,

v(X)≥32.v(X) \geq \frac{3}{2}.

The conjecture would improve the lower bound used in the paper from 43\frac{4}{3} to 32\frac{3}{2} for vertices away from the boundary, potentially yielding a stronger lower bound on the pebbling number of the grid. The source presents it as an open problem motivated by the observation about 22-reachable vertices.

References

Primary source

Jan Petr, Julien Portier and Szymon Stolarczyk, “A new lower bound on the pebbling number of the grid”, arXiv:2111.13173 (2021).

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