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On an independent Bernoulli product measure, the Harris-Kleitman inequality states that increasing events $E,F$ obeyThe same holds for two decreasing events; an increasing and a decreasing event have the reversed inequality.

Prove the stronger function version by induction on the number of coordinates. For increasing bounded functions $f,g$, condition on the last coordinate $Z$, with $\mathrm{Pr}(Z=1)=p$. The law of total covariance givesThe first term is nonnegative by induction, and the other factors are nonnegative by monotonicity. The one-coordinate case is the same formula without the first term. Event indicators prove the assertion. Two decreasing functions follow by replacing both by their negatives; replacing only one gives negative correlation of increasing and decreasing events.

Here is a precise Janson inequality and its lower-tail concentration form. Let $I_i$ indicate containment of a specified set of independent Bernoulli coordinates, set $X={\sum }_i{I}_i$, $\mu =\mathbb{E}X$, and letThis Janson dependency sum is ordered and excludes the diagonal. ThenA zero denominator means the trivial case $X=0$ almost surely.

To prove the avoidance bound, expose the avoidance events in order. For a fixed $i$, separate earlier indices into those whose supports are disjoint from $S_i$ and those overlapping it. Write $C$ for avoidance of the first group and $D$ for avoidance of the second. The event $C$ is independent of $I_i$, while $C$ is decreasing and $\{I_i=I_j=1\}$ is increasing. The correlation inequality therefore givesThe first inequality divides a nonnegative numerator by $\mathrm{Pr}(D\mid C)\le 1$; the second uses a union bound and negative correlation with $C$. Conditioning events of zero probability already make full avoidance impossible. Multiply the resulting conditional avoidance bounds to obtain the Janson sequential product lemma. Taking logarithms and using $\log (1-u)\le -u$ gives $-\mu +\Delta /2$, since each unordered dependency pair is counted once in the sequential sum.

For the Janson lower-tail bound by independent thinning, attach independent selectors of probability $t$ to the events. Their total expectation and dependency sum are $t\mu ,t^2\Delta$, so avoidance of the selected events givesSet $t=1-e^{-s}$ and apply the exponential Markov bound to $e^{-sX}$. Using $s-s^2/2\le 1-e^{-s}\le s$ yieldsChoosing $s=a/(\mu +\Delta )$ proves the concentration assertion. For avoidance alone, optimizing $-t\mu +t^2\Delta /2$ also gives $e^{-{\mu }^2/(2\Delta )}$ when $\Delta \ge \mu$, and the original bound gives $e^{-\mu /2}$ when $\Delta \le \mu$.

To outline the sharp chromatic application, view an independent set of $G(n,p)$ as a clique of its complement, whose edge probability is $q=1-p$. Fix $0<\epsilon <1$, let $m=\lceil n/(\log n{)}^2\rceil$ and $r=\lfloor (2-\epsilon ){\log }_{b}n\rfloor$. For a particular $m$-vertex set, let $X$ count independent $r$-sets. Then $\mu =\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{m}{r}\right)q^{\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{r}{2}\right)}$, and the overlap calculation givesOverlap of only one vertex shares no edge, hence is independent. For completeness, the summand is at most $(r^2/(m-r){)}^{\ell }{b}^{\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{\ell }{2}\right)}/\ell !$. Since $r\le (2-\epsilon /2){\log }_{b}m$ eventually, large overlaps are bounded by $m^{-c_{\epsilon }\ell }$; finitely many smaller overlaps are dominated by $\ell =2$. Also $\log \mu ={\Omega }_{p,\epsilon }((\log m{)}^2)$, so the diagonal contribution $1/\mu$ is negligible. The concentration bound consequently givesA union bound over at most $2^n$ vertex sets still tends to zero. Thus independent sets in every large subset of a dense random graph are available uniformly, including adaptively obtained remainders. Repeatedly remove an independent $r$-set and give it a new colour, then colour the fewer than $m$ leftover vertices individually. This uses at most $n/r+m$ colours. Combining with the first-moment lower bound and letting fixed $\epsilon$ be arbitrarily small gives the accurate leading asymptoticThe uniform subset estimate, rather than merely the existence of one large independent set, is what makes the sharp upper bound possible.

The printed inclusion symbol here means non-strict inclusion: the PDF explicitly excludes a common member of the two set families. We use $\subseteq$ throughout. Thus a cross-Sperner family pair need not consist of internal antichains; the restriction is between the two families.

Give the Boolean lattice the uniform probability measure, and write $N=2^n$. Form the upward closure of a set family and downward closure of a set family of $\mathcal{A}$:These are respectively an increasing event and a decreasing event. We have $\mathcal{A}\subseteq U\cap D$, whereas the cross-Sperner family condition gives $\mathcal{B}\subseteq U^c\cap D^c$. Set $u=\mathbb{P}(U)$ and $d=\mathbb{P}(D)$. By negative correlation of increasing and decreasing events, first for $U,D$ and then for $U^c,D^c$,Apply the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality to the unit vectors $(\sqrt{u},\sqrt{1-u})$ and $(\sqrt{d},\sqrt{1-d})$. It yieldsTherefore the Cross-Sperner inequality isIf the printed inclusion symbol were read as strict inclusion while the explicit exclusion of common members were discarded, this conclusion would fail, for example with both families equal to the middle uniform set family when $n=2$. The PDF's parenthetical clause fixes the intended convention.

Harris' inequality states that, for a product measure on $\{0,1{\}}^n$ with independent Bernoulli random variables of parameters $p_i\in [0,1]$, increasing events $E,F$ satisfyIn particular, the uniform probability measure on the Boolean lattice gives $|E\cap F|\ge |E||F|/2^n$. We give a direct mathematical induction proof, so no stronger correlation theorem is assumed.

Prove more generally that $\mathbb{E}[fg]\ge \mathbb{E}[f]\mathbb{E}[g]$ for real coordinatewise increasing functions $f,g$ on the finite cube. For $n=0$ both are constant and equality holds. For the inductive step let $p=p_n$, and let $f_j,g_j$ be the restrictions obtained by setting the last coordinate equal to $j\in \{0,1\}$. Write $a_j=\mathbb{E}[f_j]$, $b_j=\mathbb{E}[g_j]$, using the product measure on the other coordinates. Monotonicity gives $a_0\le a_1$, $b_0\le b_1$. By the inductive hypothesis and conditional expectation,The nonnegative correction term also handles $p=0$ and $p=1$. Taking indicator functions $f=1_E$, $g=1_F$ proves Harris' inequality.

For later use, an increasing event $E$ and a decreasing event $G$ have negative correlation of increasing and decreasing events. The complement $G^c$ is an increasing event, so