“…It was shown in [19], Theorems 1.4-1.6, that if a(·, ·) is symmetric and transient, then there exist 0 < b 2 ≤ b * such that the system in (1.21) locally dies out when b > b * , but converges to an equilibrium when 0 < b < b * , and this equilibrium has a finite second moment when 0 < b < b 2 and an infinite second moment when b 2 ≤ b < b * . It was conjectured in [19], Conjecture 1.8, that b * > b 2 . As explained in [19], Section 4.2, the gap in Theorem 1.6 settles this conjecture, at least when a(·, ·) satisfies (1.1) and is strongly transient, with…”