Edge-negative association conjecture for uniform random forests
Edge-negative association conjecture for uniform random forests
Let be a finite graph with no loops or multiple edges. Let be the set of forests in , and let be chosen uniformly from . Say that is edge-negatively associated when, for distinct edges ,
The edge-negative association conjecture. For every such graph , the random forest is edge-negatively associated. This is a longstanding problem concerning negative dependence of the uniform random forest measure. The source describes the displayed property as a relatively weak form of negative dependence and mentions that stronger varieties may also be conjectured, without specifying one precisely.
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Primary source
Geoffrey R. Grimmett, “Selected problems in probability theory”, arXiv:2205.07318 (2022).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1412.2522.
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