Published Paper

Inserted: 28 jun 2011
Last Updated: 14 aug 2024

Journal: Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Probab. Stat.
Year: 2014

Abstract:

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.

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