Identifying interacting pairs of sites in Ising models on a countable set

Abstract

This paper address the problem of identifying pairs of interacting sites from a finite sample of independent realizations of the Ising model. We consider Ising models in a infinite countable set of sites under Dobrushin uniqueness condition. The observed sample contains only the values assigned by the Ising model to a finite set of sites. Our main result is an upperbound for the probability of misidentification of the pairs of interacting sites in this finite set.