Some conditional correlation inequalities for percolation and related processes

DOI10.1002/RSA.20102zbMATH Open1112.60087arXivmath/0408176OpenAlexW2514877643MaRDI QIDQ3419601FDOQ3419601

Authors: Olle Häggström, Jacob van den Berg, J. Kahn 

Publication date: 7 February 2007

Published in: Random Structures \& Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Consider 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).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408176

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zbMATH Keywords

contact processpercolationrandom-cluster modelcorrelation inequalitiesAhlswede-Daykin Theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

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