Nontermination conjecture for the supercritical fully packed O(2)O(2) iteration

Fix s>1s>1. In the modified iteration procedure, each hole of perimeter mm is filled using a ring whose inner boundary has length either sm\lfloor sm\rfloor or s1m\lfloor s^{-1}m\rfloor, with the two choices made equiprobably and independently. Let kk be the initial boundary length. Supercritical iteration nontermination conjecture. With probability tending to one as kk\to\infty, the procedure does not terminate after finitely many steps. Consequently, with high probability for large kk, iterating countably many times yields an infinite triangulation MkM_k' with boundary perimeter kk, decorated by an infinite fully packed loop configuration LkL_k' on its dual. The conjecture is motivated by the expected infinite graph-distance diameter of the corresponding maps and the expectation that the associated multi-type branching process is supercritical; it remains open.

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Morris Ang and Ewain Gwynne, “Supercritical Liouville quantum gravity and CLE_4”, arXiv:2308.11832 (2025).

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