Linusson's bunkbed conjecture for hypergraph percolation

Let H\mathcal{H} be a hypergraph and let TV(H)T\subseteq V(\mathcal{H}) be a set of posts. In the conditioned model E4T(H~)E_4^T(\widetilde{\mathcal{H}}), precisely one of the two copies of each hyperedge is retained, and precisely the vertical edges at vertices in TT are retained. For vertices u,vV(H)u,v\in V(\mathcal{H}), write P(u(0)E4T(H)v(i))\operatorname{\mathbb{P}}(u^{(0)}\xleftrightarrow{E_4^T(\mathcal{H})}v^{(i)}) for bidirectional connectivity. Linusson's hypergraph bunkbed conjecture. For every hypergraph H\mathcal{H} and every TV(H)T\subseteq V(\mathcal{H}),

P(u(0)E4T(H)v(0))P(u(0)E4T(H)v(1)).\operatorname{\mathbb{P}}(u^{(0)}\xleftrightarrow{E_4^T(\mathcal{H})}v^{(0)})\geq \operatorname{\mathbb{P}}(u^{(0)}\xleftrightarrow{E_4^T(\mathcal{H})}v^{(1)}).

This conjecture is disproved in the paper by an explicit hypergraph example.

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Lawrence Hollom, “The bunkbed conjecture is not robust to generalisation”, arXiv:2406.01790 (2024).

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