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The van den Berg-Kesten-Reimer Inequality: A Review

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Perplexing Problems in Probability

Part of the book series: Progress in Probability ((PRPR,volume 44))

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We present a variant of Reimer’s proof of the van den Berg-Kesten conjecture.

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  1. Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052, USA

    Christian Borgs & Jennifer T. Chayes

  2. School of Mathematics and College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0160, USA

    Dana Randall

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  1. School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Maury Bramson

  2. Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    Rick Durrett

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Borgs, C., Chayes, J.T., Randall, D. (1999). The van den Berg-Kesten-Reimer Inequality: A Review. In: Bramson, M., Durrett, R. (eds) Perplexing Problems in Probability. Progress in Probability, vol 44. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2168-5_9

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