Monotonicity conjecture for coexistence probabilities in the two-type Richardson model

Consider the two-type Richardson model on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d with d2d\geq 2, normalized so that type 1 has intensity 11 and type 2 has intensity λ\lambda. Let GG be the event of infinite coexistence, and let P1,λP^{1,\lambda} denote the law of the process.

Monotonicity conjecture. For λ<λ(0,1]\lambda<\lambda'\in(0,1],

P1,λ(G)P1,λ(G).P^{1,\lambda}(G)\leq P^{1,\lambda'}(G).

This conjecture formalizes the expectation that coexistence becomes more likely as the weaker type's intensity increases toward that of the stronger type. It is proposed as a possible route to proving the only-if direction of the coexistence conjecture; no resolution is supplied in the given text.

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Maria Deijfen and Olle Häggström, “The pleasures and pains of studying the two-type Richardson model”, arXiv:1509.07006 (2015).

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