Tóth's infinite-cycle conjecture for the interchange process

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Let πβ\pi _\beta be the interchange permutation on Zd\mathbb Z^d at time β>0\beta>0, and let βc\beta_c denote the critical time.

Tóth's conjecture. Almost surely, πβ\pi_\beta has only finite cycles when d=2d=2, for every β>0\beta>0, whereas when d3d\geq3 it has infinite cycles for every β>βc\beta>\beta_c.

The paper proves the infinite-cycle assertion for d5d\geq5 and all sufficiently large β\beta, but the conjecture remains open in the stated generality, particularly in dimensions three and four.

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Primary source

Dor Elboim and Allan Sly, “Infinite cycles in the interchange process in five dimensions”, arXiv:2211.17023 (2024).

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