Conditional negative association for partitioned urn indicators

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Let T0∪T1∪⋯∪TsT_0\cup T_1\cup\cdots\cup T_s be a partition of [m]×[n][m]\times[n], and let ar,br∈Na_r,b_r\in\mathbb{N} for r=1,…,sr=1,\ldots,s. For the indicator variables xiijxi_{ij} defined in the paper, write

ξ(T)=∑(i,j)∈Tξij.\xi(T)=\sum_{(i,j)\in T}\xi_{ij}.

Partitioned-urn conjecture. The variables xiijxi_{ij} are negatively associated conditional on

{ξ(Tr)∈[ar,br] ∀r∈[s]}.\{\xi(T_r)\in[a_r,b_r]~\forall r\in[s]\}.

The source presents this as a possible considerable strengthening of conditional negative association for generalized threshold urn measures; no resolution is supplied.

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Jeff Kahn and Michael Neiman, “Conditional negative association for competing urns”, arXiv:1001.0610 (2010).

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