Realizability of point processes

Abstract: There are various situations in which it is natural to ask whether a given collection of

k

functions,

h o_{j} (_{1}, ...,_{j})

,

j = 1, ..., k

, defined on a set

X

, are the first

k

correlation functions of a point process on

X

. Here we describe some necessary and sufficient conditions on the

h o_{j}

's for this to be true. Our primary examples are

X = m a t h b b R^{d}

,

X = m a t b b Z^{d}

, and

X

an arbitrary finite set. In particular, we extend a result by Ambartzumian and Sukiasian showing realizability at sufficiently small densities

h o_{1} (m a t h b f r)

. Typically if any realizing process exists there will be many (even an uncountable number); in this case we prove, when

X

is a finite set, the existence of a realizing Gibbs measure with

k

body potentials which maximizes the entropy among all realizing measures. We also investigate in detail a simple example in which a uniform density

h o

and translation invariant

h o_{2}

are specified on

m a t h b b Z

; there is a gap between our best upper bound on possible values of

h o

and the largest

h o

for which realizability can be established.

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