Maximum of the product of two poisson mass functions

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I have two questions regarding maximising the following function defined for $x, y \geq 0$:

$f(x, y) = \displaystyle \sum_{i = 0}^{\infty} \frac{x^i e^{-x}}{i!} \frac{y^i e^{-y}}{i!}$ when $x, y > 0$,

$f(0, 0) = 1$,

$f(0, y) = e^{-y}$, and

$f(x, 0) = e^{-x}$

1) Is the value $f(x, x)$ monotonically decreasing with respect to increasing $x$?

2) For a fixed $x$, is the maximum achieved when $y = x$?