The simple-digraph counterexample conjecture for the fully directed bunkbed model

Let DD be a simple digraph. Construct D~\widetilde{D} by adding both directed vertical edges v(0)v(1)v^{(0)}v^{(1)} and v(1)v(0)v^{(1)}v^{(0)} for every vV(D)v\in V(D), and let E8E_8 select a subset of the edges uniformly at random. Simple-digraph counterexample conjecture. There exists a simple digraph DD for which the bunkbed inequality fails:

BBC(E8,D) is false.\operatorname{BBC}(E_8,D)\text{ is false}.

This conjecture asks whether the counterexample can be made fully directed and simple rather than using multiple edges and undirected vertical edges; the supplied text gives no resolution.

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

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