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Hauptverfasser: Martineau, Sébastien, Poudevigne, Rémy, Rax, Paul
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Martineau, Sébastien
Poudevigne, Rémy
Rax, Paul
author_facet Martineau, Sébastien
Poudevigne, Rémy
Rax, Paul
contents Consider some matrix waiting for its coefficients to be written. For each column, sample independently a Bernoulli random variable of some parameter $p$. Seeing all this and possibly using extra randomness, Alice then chooses one spot in each column, in any way she wants. When the Bernoulli random variable of some column is equal to 1, the number 1 is written in the chosen spot. When the Bernoulli random variable of a column is 0, nothing is done on this column. We prove that, using extra randomness, it is possible for Bob to fill the empty entries with well chosen 0's and 1's so that the entries of the matrix are independent Bernoulli random variables of parameter $p$. We investigate various generalisations and variations of this problem, and use this result to revisit and generalise (nonstrict) monotonicity of the percolation threshold $p_c$ with respect to a form of graph-quotienting, namely fibrations. We also use this result to revisit the BK inequality. In a second part, which is independent of the first one, we revisit strict monotonicity of $p_c$ with respect to fibrations, a result that naturally requires more assumptions than its nonstrict counterpart. We reprove the bond-percolation case of the result of Martineau--Severo without resorting to essential enhancements, using couplings instead.
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spellingShingle Stochastic domination and lifts of random variables in percolation theory
Martineau, Sébastien
Poudevigne, Rémy
Rax, Paul
Probability
Combinatorics
60E15, 82B43
Consider some matrix waiting for its coefficients to be written. For each column, sample independently a Bernoulli random variable of some parameter $p$. Seeing all this and possibly using extra randomness, Alice then chooses one spot in each column, in any way she wants. When the Bernoulli random variable of some column is equal to 1, the number 1 is written in the chosen spot. When the Bernoulli random variable of a column is 0, nothing is done on this column. We prove that, using extra randomness, it is possible for Bob to fill the empty entries with well chosen 0's and 1's so that the entries of the matrix are independent Bernoulli random variables of parameter $p$. We investigate various generalisations and variations of this problem, and use this result to revisit and generalise (nonstrict) monotonicity of the percolation threshold $p_c$ with respect to a form of graph-quotienting, namely fibrations. We also use this result to revisit the BK inequality. In a second part, which is independent of the first one, we revisit strict monotonicity of $p_c$ with respect to fibrations, a result that naturally requires more assumptions than its nonstrict counterpart. We reprove the bond-percolation case of the result of Martineau--Severo without resorting to essential enhancements, using couplings instead.
title Stochastic domination and lifts of random variables in percolation theory
topic Probability
Combinatorics
60E15, 82B43
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02427