With the inner boundary specified in the PDF, the Ising boundary condition pins . Explicitly is conditioned on those Ising spins. Its partition function sums over unpinned interior Ising spins only; edges between two pinned sites contribute a constant that cancels on normalization.
Pinning coordinates preserves the FKG lattice condition, since meet in a lattice and join in a lattice still have the same pinned values. It also gives monotonicity in the pins. For any increasing observable , positive association of random variables with an unpinned Ising spin gives
Both conditional probabilities are positive. The same inequality holds after other Ising spins have been pinned. Changing pins one at a time proves stochastic domination of the measures as increases.
Now let and take an increasing observable depending on a fixed set inside the smaller box. Given the Ising spins on , the larger-box measure induces precisely the smaller-box interior law with those boundary values: nearest-neighbor interactions cannot see farther once this boundary is fixed. Its conditional law is therefore between the all-zero and all-one smaller-box laws. Averaging yields
These are bounded monotone sequences along any increasing box exhaustion.
For every finite set , the event that all Ising spins in are one is increasing, so its probability converges in both boundary sequences. Probabilities of arbitrary finite zero/one patterns are finite inclusion-exclusion combinations of these all-one probabilities, and hence converge too. The limits are consistent finite-dimensional distributions; they define measures on and give weak convergence of probability measures in the product topology. Thus both extremal infinite-volume Ising measures exist, with below in stochastic domination. This argument proves existence even when the two limits are different.