Determinantal Processes and Stochastic Domination

Abstract

We prove the stochastic domination for determinantal processes associated with finite rank projection kernels. The result was first proved by Lyons in discrete setting. We avoid the machinery of matroids in order to obtain a proof that works in a general setting. We prove another result on the stochastic domination of two determinantal processes where the kernels are represented with respect to different measures. Combining this result with Lyons' theorem on the Stochastic domination we obtain a result on the stochastic domination for the last passage time in a directed last passage percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with i.i.d. geometric weights.