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

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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 ⌊s−1m⌋\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 k→∞k\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 Mk′M_k' with boundary perimeter kk, decorated by an infinite fully packed loop configuration Lk′L_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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