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Counterexamples to the Markovity Conjecture for the Two-Receiver Broadcast Channel

Yanxiao Liu·Mian Huang
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We present two counterexamples to the \emph{Markovity Conjecture} of Gohari, Liu and Nair (ISIT 2025), which is a structural conjecture concerning the optimizers of the dual functional associated with Marton's inner bound and, if true, would greatly simplify the evaluation of Marton's inner bound. Both counterexamples are ternary-input broadcast channels with strictly positive transition probabilities and use the same nonrectangular $2\times2$ auxiliary structure. In each case, we exhibit an explicit non-Markov construction whose objective value is rigorously larger than that achievable by any construction satisfying the conjectured Markov structure. Both examples are obtained with the assistance of GPT-5.6 Sol and disprove the Markovity Conjecture.

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Yanxiao Liu, Mian Huang. 2026-08-13. Counterexamples to the Markovity Conjecture for the Two-Receiver Broadcast Channel. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13170

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