Conjectured differentiability and sequence-independence of fluid limits

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Let zz be a fluid limit with initial condition z(0)=xz(0)=x, where x=lim⁡nxn/∣xn∣x=\lim_n x^n/|x^n|, and let ViV_i denote the neighborhood associated with coordinate ii. The right derivative at 00 is denoted by z′(0)z'(0). Differentiability and sequence-independence conjecture. All coordinates of every fluid limit zz have right derivatives at 00, even when there exists ii such that xj=zj(0)=0x_j=z_j(0)=0 for all j∈Vij\in V_i. Moreover, the right derivative z′(0)z'(0) depends only on xx and not on the sequence xnx^n. If this holds, then all fluid limits are deterministic functions. The conjecture concerns the behavior and uniqueness of fluid limits at the boundary of the state space; the supplied text gives no resolution.

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Charles Bordenave, Sergey Foss and Vsevolod Shneer, “A Random Multiple Access Protocol with Spatial Interactions”, arXiv:math/0612583 (2009).

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