ULC rank sequences in the random-cluster, competing-urns and exclusion models

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In the random-cluster (RC) model and the competing urns model, let XeX_e denote the indicator associated with an edge or site, and let SS be any subset of the relevant index set. In the exclusion model, let the occupied-site indicators be observed in a set SS at time tt. ULC model conjecture. In the RC model, the rank sequence of

eSXe\sum_{e\in S}X_e

is ULC for every subset SS; the same is true in the competing urns model. In the exclusion model, the total number of occupied sites in SS at every time tt has a ULC rank sequence. These model-specific assertions were presented as conjectures, with the spanning-tree case noted as a subcase of the RC assertion.

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Robin Pemantle, “Towards a theory of negative dependence”, arXiv:math/0404095 (2004).

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