STOCHASTIC COMPARISON OF POINT RANDOM FIELDS

We give an alternative proof of a point-process version of the FKG-Holley-Preston inequality which provides a sufficient condition for stochastic domination of probability measures, and for positive correlations of increasing functions.

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