Asymptotic analysis of simultaneous damages in spatial Boolean models

A notion of the positive spatial association is introduced in this paper to analyze spatial dependence of Boolean models with the focus on estimating the long-range spatial dependence. The explicit tail estimates for probabilities of simultaneous damage to two distant spatial regions are obtained using the regular variation method, and the long-range spatial covariance for the Boolean models with heavy-tailed grains is shown to decay at the power-law rate that is smaller than the tail decay rate of grains. Examples and applications to spatial reliability modeling are also discussed. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.