A geometric approach to correlation inequalities in the plane
Figalli, A. ; Maggi, F. ; Pratelli, A.
Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 50 (2014), p. 1-14 / Harvested from Numdam
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En utilisant des arguments géométriques élémentaires, on démontre des inégalités de corrélation pour des mesures de probabilité à symétrie radiale. Plus précisément on montre que, parmi la famille des ensembles width-decreasing, le ratio de corrélation est minimisé par des bandes. Comme les ouverts convexes symétriques appartiennent à cette famille, on retrouve comme corollaire le résultat de Pitt sur la validité de la conjecture de corrélation gaussiennne en dimension 2, qui est étendue dans ce papier à une large classe de mesures à symétrie radiale.

By elementary geometric arguments, correlation inequalities for radially symmetric probability measures are proved in the plane. Precisely, it is shown that the correlation ratio for pairs of width-decreasing sets is minimized within the class of infinite strips. Since open convex sets which are symmetric with respect to the origin turn out to be width-decreasing sets, Pitt's Gaussian correlation inequality (the two-dimensional case of the long-standing Gaussian correlation conjecture) is derived as a corollary, and it is in fact extended to a wide class of radially symmetric measures.

Publié le : 2014-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1214/12-AIHP494
Classification:  60E15,  52A40,  62H05 
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Figalli, A.; Maggi, F.; Pratelli, A. A geometric approach to correlation inequalities in the plane. Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 50 (2014) pp. 1-14. doi : 10.1214/12-AIHP494. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIHPB_2014__50_1_1_0/

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