Poisson and extreme value limit theorems for Markov random fields

Let Xt, be a Markov random field assuming values in RM. Let In be a rectangular box in Zm with its center at 0 and corner points with coordinates ±n. Let (An) be a sequence of measurable subsets of RM such that neighborhood of t) . 0, for n . .; and let fn(x) be the indicator of An. Under appropriate conditions on the nearest-neighbor distributions of (Xt), the conditional distribution of given the values of Xs, for s on the boundary of In, converges to the Poisson distribution. An immediate application is an extreme value limit theorem for a real-valued Markov random field.