Some Conditional Correlation Inequalities for Percolation and Related Processes

dc.creatorBerg, Jacob van den
dc.creatorHaggstrom, Olle
dc.creatorKahn, Jeff
dc.date2004-08-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:11:15Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:11:15Z
dc.descriptionConsider ordinary bond percolation on a finite or countably infinite graph. Let s, t, a and b be vertices. An earlier paper proved the (nonintuitive) result that, conditioned on the event that there is no open path from s to t, the two events "there is an open path from s to a" and "there is an open path from s to b" are positively correlated. In the present paper we further investigate and generalize the theorem of which this result was a consequence. This leads to results saying, informally, that, with the above conditioning, the open cluster of s is conditionally positively (self-)associated and that it is conditionally negatively correlated with the open cluster of t. We also present analogues of some of our results for (a) random-cluster measures, and (b) directed percolation and contact processes, and observe that the latter lead to improvements of some of the results in a paper of Belitsky, Ferrari, Konno and Liggett (1997).
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408176
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408176
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/72179
dc.subjectProbability
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject60C05; 60K35; 05C99
dc.titleSome Conditional Correlation Inequalities for Percolation and Related Processes
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