Extra heads and invariant allocations

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Abstract: Let Pi be an ergodic simple point process on R^d and let Pi^* be its Palm version. Thorisson [Ann. Probab. 24 (1996) 2057-2064] proved that there exists a shift coupling of Pi and Pi^*; that is, one can select a (random) point Y of Pi such that translating Pi by -Y yields a configuration whose law is that of Pi^*. We construct shift couplings in which Y and Pi^* are functions of Pi, and prove that there is no shift coupling in which Pi is a function of Pi^*. The key ingredient is a deterministic translation-invariant rule to allocate sets of equal volume (forming a partition of R^d) to the points of Pi. The construction is based on the Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm [Amer. Math. Monthly 69 (1962) 9-15]. Next, let Gamma be an ergodic random element of {0,1}^{Z^d} and let Gamma^* be Gamma conditioned on Gamma(0)=1. A shift coupling X of Gamma and Gamma^* is called an extra head scheme. We show that there exists an extra head scheme which is a function of Gamma if and only if the marginal E[Gamma(0)] is the reciprocal of an integer. When the law of Gamma is product measure and dgeq3, we prove that there exists an extra head scheme X satisfying Eexp c|X|^d<infty; this answers a question of Holroyd and Liggett [Ann. Probab. 29 (2001) 1405-1425].





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