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Positive association of the oriented percolation cluster in randomly oriented graphs

Probability 2020-07-21 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Consider any fixed graph whose edges have been randomly and independently oriented, and write {Si}\{S \leadsto i\} to indicate that there is an oriented path going from a vertex sSs \in S to vertex ii. Narayanan (2016) proved that for any set SS and any two vertices ii and jj, {Si}\{S \leadsto i\} and {Sj}\{S \leadsto j\} are positively correlated. His proof relies on the Ahlswede-Daykin inequality, a rather advanced tool of probabilistic combinatorics. In this short note, I give an elementary proof of the following, stronger result: writing VV for the vertex set of the graph, for any source set SS, the events {Si}\{S \leadsto i\}, iVi \in V, are positively associated -- meaning that the expectation of the product of increasing functionals of the family {Si}\{S \leadsto i\} for iVi \in V is greater than the product of their expectations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1711.08815,
  title  = {Positive association of the oriented percolation cluster in randomly oriented graphs},
  author = {François Bienvenu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08815},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

This is the accepted (post-print) version. The example of application was removed

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